From LilSis: Here ya go, BW. It’s not a story, but it’s the best I can do on short notice.
“THE LONELY LITTLE NASTURTIUM”
Where did the lonely little nasturtium
Come from
By hurrican’ winds blown
To a new home
Gone are the friends of yore
… Rooted at a new door
Who will see my beauty now?
Who will watch me sway and bow
Under the umbrella leaves
Caressed by the breeze
By the wind – Wendy.
Headed out about as early as I could to the honey hole BB, Diane, and I blasted about a month ago. We pulled limits of reds out of there on consecutive mornings in June, plus a few bass. The water was looking very fishy when I pulled up. As I threw down the Cajun anchor,…
We have always leaned on the side of conservatism when it comes to gift giving. And there were several reasons for that–one being monetary for most of their formative years. So when Dotter and MuzicMan approached me about the possibility of sharing their good fortune with Miah and Termite, I said yes. They proceeded to…
Those of a particular generation acquired their first and only knowledge of dolphins through Flipper, the mid-1960s TV series about a precocious dolphin and its relationship with an adolescent boy. In the series, Flipper exhibited high intelligence and an extraordinary understanding of human motives, behavior, and vocabulary. This trained dolphin’s abilities, we now know, reflected the…
This post was originally planned to be abour Mardi Gras, but things changed when I received a call last night from Bayou Fabio saying, “I’m on the Internet now! With my picture and all.”
So, this is your tease. I will post this while I cogitate, and hopefully you will come back later to see what the actual contest and prize are.
Fiesta de Mama de Cinco – Mexican food on the bayou?
I couldn’t have come up with that given all the time in the world. Good job.
wow, that is a true talent. I agree with Steffi, I would never have come up with that given all the creative writting classes and a tutor. My hats off to you lilsis!
Aww. Y’all are too sweet – you make me blush.
Nice poem. here’s more about nasturtium than you probably want to know:
They are orginally from Peru, but are grown everywhere now. They like full sun but will tolerate shade. many organic gardeners will tell you that nasturtium will repel bugs; i plant them with my veggies for that reason. Does it work? who knows? but they sure are pretty!
Nasturtiums are an annual but the seeds can self-sow, as yours apparently did.
You can use the leaves and flowers in salads, as others have said, and you can pickle the seeds to use as a substitute for capers, those pickled sees from the caper plant that my mother loved in potato salad. I don’t think she ever tried to use nasturtium seeds though.
Supposedly nasturtium leaves contain vitamin C and iron; the seeds are used in medications for bronchitis and urinary infections. An herbal medicinal tea (called a tisane) can be made with leaves and flowers and is used by some people as a home remedy for those disorders.
Another folk remedy made from nasturtium is supposed to be able to cure or prevent baldness, but somehow I just don’t think it would work. Imagine a man walking around with a green paste smeared on his head. I think he’d rather just be bald!
What a pretty poem! I love nasturtiums. They are one of my favorite herbs/flowers. Lovely!