Morning Glories: Morning Glories 2010 #11, 1 by bluespiral

bluespiral wrote:
someone said English ivy? no, I haven't seen it bloom, but few vines drip so well with fairy lore and mythology as that one. I seem to recall reading somewhere that it takes a decade or few for it to bloom, but once it does, then it will rebloom pretty faithfully. Further, if you take cuttings of an English ivy that has bloomed, then if that cutting roots, it'll bloom within a year, as opposed to waiting a decade or few.

I don't know if there's anything on ivy in this website or not, but it looks like a fun place to hunt for enchanted aspects of ivy: Myth*ingLinks - http://www.mythinglinks.org/home.html . There's a quote at its beginning from Tolkien that I like that looks like a good recipe for finding what matters among what doesn't:

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places;
but still there is much that is fair;
and though in all lands
love is now mingled with grief,
it grows perhaps the greater.
(J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring)"
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image: ivy & fairies & stones in the twilight - date in the 1800s
by John Anster Fitzgerald - http://www.lair2000.net/fairy_pictures1/Fairy_Pictures1.html

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g'night All
karen