Another Beholder-Rec already :-)
As this is an open post I just recommend the story without much ado, but my flist knows why I love it anyway, especially when they read my comment to the author ;-)
"Save the last dance for me" , a Poppy/Minerva : http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_beholder/98725.html
And as I am posting anyway - here is a picture from our garden two days ago (in the background the commuter-train to the big city, I wanted it to be on the picture: in summer one does not see it, as the leaves of the shrubbery shield the view). The shrub with the white flowers is called "Kanadische Felsenbirne" in German, Saskatoon seems to be the English name http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Amelanchier , behind it the Forsythia, which are so common here in Germany, but I don't remember to have seen any in NC... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Forsythia?uselang=de
"Save the last dance for me" , a Poppy/Minerva : http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_beholder/98725.html
And as I am posting anyway - here is a picture from our garden two days ago (in the background the commuter-train to the big city, I wanted it to be on the picture: in summer one does not see it, as the leaves of the shrubbery shield the view). The shrub with the white flowers is called "Kanadische Felsenbirne" in German, Saskatoon seems to be the English name http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Amelanchier , behind it the Forsythia, which are so common here in Germany, but I don't remember to have seen any in NC... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Forsythia?uselang=de