Snow on snow-on-the-mountain


Restored after my file deletion disaster is this close up on the plant called snow-on-the-mountain with photographs of the plant covered with May snow.

Here you see the freak snow of May 2 as it appears on a ground cover plant called snow-on-the-mountain. The plant's name comes from the white markings on the light green leaves that make the plant look as if snow has fallen on them. The "on-the-mountain" must have come from the likelihood that high in the mountains snow would appear on green spring plants. But here I was in University Heights, which is not really so high, looking at real snow on my snow-imitating plants, which are now bereft of real snow, relegated to reveling in the sunlight in their their pseudo-snow markings.





Posted: Tue - May 4, 2004 at 06:10 AM      

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