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This week’s prompt for Illustration Friday is “stitch.” I considered several approaches, but settled on this one after being perhaps a little to vigourous in my daily work-out!

I scratched about in an old album and found a photo I took of a common stitchwort (stellaria holostea) that most be at least 35 years old! This is my quick (because the kittens were “helping”) pen sketch.

It’s a pretty little white spring flower and was, in older times, used as a treatment for the stitch, hence the name. How was it used? I don’t know; probably as a poultice? (Yes, I did Google, but there are so many entries I figure if you’re interested, you’ll look it up yourself!)

Sometimes, it appears to have 10 petals; there are, in fact, only five, but deeply-lobed.

And that’s probably more than you need to know!

The rain has stopped!

The sun is (sort-of) shining!
The grass is as high as a elephant’s eye
And that means that I’d better dust the cobwebs off the mower, which has been shoved into a corner since the grass was practically hayed-off and I refuse to waste water on it. It takes longer to drag the mower out and get it started than to mow the piffling little patch of “lawn.” I shouldn’t grumble, I s’pose, after years of trudging up and down several acres of the green stuff. This is the sort of noisy, smelly machine I use…(no, that’s not me!) This is what I should have….

But this looks like fun! Who comes up with these things? Oh! For those who don’t know (and that would be most of the readers of this blog), my sobriquet, Dinahmow, is derived from those not-always-halcyon days of mowing great swathes grass!

At least I don’t suffer the Australian obsession with lawns. (And that’ll pull some indignant comments if any of my neighbours read this!!)