Rowans for Rowangolightly

[ar_wahan]

This is my baby American rowan (the white thingy on the far right is a "garlic clip" meant to discourage deer from nibbling at it).



This is a mature rowan with its autumn berries, found growing wild in Wales as I was walking down the valley to find where I lived in a past life. There were whole forests of them along the rail line coming in from Portmadoc.

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[fairiegodmother.livejournal.com]

btw, just noticed your caption at the bottom of the second picture. I was coming down with a migraine the other night when I sent you my question about it.

On another topic, do you ever watch the History Channel? They did a piece on Queen Boudica. I got chills up and down my body the minute it started airing (thank god I have TiVo) and I had an urge to call you...

If you get a chance to catch the show this week, please do. I'd like to know if you relate to it as I did, or differently, or not at all.

This was a historical recreaction, of course, which was part of why I was so surprised at my reaction.

The only other time I've had a strong reaction to a historical figure was while gazing at President Lincoln's death-mask, when the Smithsonian brought their traveling exhibit to Portland. Gazing at the mask, I had a profound sense of his presence. He was a gentle, kind, loving, peaceful, peace-loving, protective, and responsible man, still surrounded with some grief or sadness. Above all, I had the sense that he wished for peace.

Re: perhaps a related topic?

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

We don't get any cable at all here. I did see something on Boudica on PBS a year or so ago, with people playing the parts. It was shot as if in a documentary style, and was very good, so perhaps that was the same thing. Did it end with it going back to modern times and showing the statue of her and her daughters in London?

I did relate to it, and wondered if I'd been around then.

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[fairiegodmother.livejournal.com]

I don't recall it ending with anything about a statue. It was a very powerful show. A lot of the focus was on the military strategies employed by the Romans, and how it was they were able to resist Boudica's armies with such disparity in numbers.

Watching it, I immediately thought of you, or us, living back then, and wondered what your take on it would be.

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[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

I think that was a different program, then. Or else I paid attention to different aspects of it. I remember a shot of Druids, many old men, in white being slaughtered as they ran through a sacred grove.