Monday, March 23, 2009

Crocuses

 
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Don't be alarmed. It's just a church yard. Simple. It is Spring in New York. We just need the winter wind to go away.

2 comments:

Rebecca Waring said...

From www.merriam-webster.com:

Main Entry: cro·cus
Pronunciation: \krō-kəs\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural cro·cus·es
Etymology: Middle English, the saffron plant, from Latin, from Greek krokos, of Semitic origin; akin to Akkadian kurkānū saffron
Date: 14th century
1 a plural also crocus or cro·ci \-kē, -kī, -sī\ : any of a genus (Crocus) of herbs of the iris family developing from corms and having solitary long-tubed flowers and slender linear leaves b: saffron 1a
2: a dark red ferric oxide used for polishing metals

Todd HellsKitchen said...

Spring has sprung...