Writing Inspiration - Passion Flower Vine

My husband and I were strolling down the gardening aisles of Lowe's and he maneuvered me over to the section with the vines and shrubs, saying I have to check out these vines, they'd be awesome for our trellis.

So as I follow him glancing here and there at the different blooms, thinking okay, I'll let him show me, but I'm really not enthused, because he wants to replace my choice of flowering vine for our trellis. He stops and points, saying, honey I really like this one.

I look over, my eyes widen as I take a step forward. I LIKE IT.

As he's talking about it's self climbing, we don't have to train it to go up, I'm thinking, this is the coolest looking flower I've seen in a long time. Leaning over I smell it, then rub the petals gently between my fingers. I turn to look at him with a smile.

I like it.

He smiles, really? let's get it.

O.K. 

as  he's loading two onto our cart, I start...

that looks so sci-fi to me, I love it and the color (purple is one of my favs). My eyes go wide and I smile, I know exactly which book I want to put this in.

He looks at me and smiles.

I start blabbing all the way around Lowe's gardening center, through check out and into the car.

My husband finally turns to look at me and says...you're a chatty little thing today.

I'm like I know right  See what happens when you inspire the writer in me. 

So there is where one of my writing inspirations came from. 

The Passion Flower Vine .

Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants, the namesakes of the familyPassifloraceae. They are mostly vines, with some being shrubs, and a few species being herbaceous. For information about the fruit of the passiflora plant, see passionfruit. The monotypic genus Hollrungia seems to be inseparable from Passiflora, but further study is needed.

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Maria Mitchell - 1st female professional Astronomer

Ok, so you know when you go onto Google and you have to sign in and they have interesting little Google signs that change with peoples birthdays or holidays...well, I found this when I went to sign on this morning and thought it was interesting so I'm sharing it. :-)

have a great day all!!

Maria Mitchell (seated) inside the dome of the Vassar College Observatory 

                                                                                                                                                               
Maria Mitchell (August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889) (pron: ma-RY-ah) was an American astronomer, who in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result became known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet". She won a gold medal prize for her discovery which was presented to her by King Frederick VII of Denmark. The medal said “Not in vain do we watch the setting and rising of the stars”. Mitchell was the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

Maria Mitchell was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was a first cousin four times removed of Benjamin Franklin.^[5] She had nine brothers and sisters. Her parents, William Mitchell and Lydia Coleman Mitchell, were Quakers. Maria Mitchell was born into a community unusual for its time in regard to equality for women. Her parents, like other Quakers, valued education and insisted on giving her the same quality of education that boys received. One of the tenets of the Quaker religion was intellectual equality between the sexes. Additionally, Nantucket's importance as a whaling port meant that wives of sailors were left for months and sometimes years to manage affairs while their husbands were at sea, thus fostering an atmosphere of relative independence and equality for the women who called the island home.

She is also known for her famous quotation, "We have a hunger of the mind. We ask for all of the knowledge around us and the more we get, the more we desire.

The above has been gathered from Wikipedia

Tuesday -- Where's that come from...

It's Tuesday -- Arrgg.

Well I sure don't want it to be Monday again, but wish Friday would hurry up! :-)

OK, well here's some WIKI info for you about Tuesday...

The name Tuesday derives from the Old English "Tiwesdæg" and literally means "Tiw's Day".^[1] Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týrin Norse, a god of war and law.^[2][3] *Tîwaz derives from the Proto-Indo-European base *dei-, *deyā-, *dīdyā-, meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such words as "deity".^[4]

AND

Tuesday is associated with the planet Mars and shares that planet's symbol, ♂.

Well there you go, some interesting facts about Tuesday.

Have a great day everyone!!