Yesterday at lunch with my husband, I remarked that I had never been really clear on the expression "salad days". He whipped out the tablet and read: "Salad Days: noun. The period when one is young and inexperienced. The peak or heyday of something." Those two definitions, to my mind, are contradictory, and have always confused me. To my further puzzlement, I learned that this expression originated in 1606, in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, when the latter lamented her "salad days, When [she] was green in judgment, cold in blood"!
I digress.
Joey's challenge this week was inspired by her spring planting and the Roman numeral XV. The patterns all related to veggies: Chard, Corn Rows, Black-eyed Peas, Garlic Cloves and Seedlings. Pretty clever, that Joey!
Happy Planting, Joey! In closing, I "leaf" you with a picture of my salad days, circa 1992.
Very beautiful tile! I like the transition from Black Eyed Peas to Corn Rows
ReplyDeleteVery nice! Love the 'sparkle' on chard and garlic!
ReplyDeleteVery nice! Love the 'sparkle' on chard and garlic!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful tile, great contrasts!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous tile! It's such an elegant composition and I especially love those "Corn Rows";-)
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