Re: OT-CHAT: slough of despond
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  • Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: slough of despond
  • From: A* C* <0*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 10:12:46 -0700
Linda, that is almost funny!  I say almost, because it's always tough to have invested so much into iris babies that end up turning to mush after winter... trust me, I know.  Went out to check the seedlings last week, and even though the frost is not out of our ground yet, many of the first-year seedlings have leaves that went to mush and beyond.  Digging down a bit to feel the small rhizomes, and they too are the texture of spongebob... *sigh*.

Ahhh, that Neil.  I was just getting into iris-talk and -photos when he was going out... :-/

Hello everyone!  Now that I've come out of "lurk mode", I'll slink back into it!  (Oh, by the way, it is currently snowing outside... 2 inches last night.) 

Adam~

Region 6 
Zone 4 (and a half...)

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On Mon, 4/6/15, Linda Mann <101l@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

 Subject: [iris] OT-CHAT: slough of despond
 To: iris@hort.net
 Date: Monday, April 6, 2015, 8:18 AM
 
 While wandering the internet this
 morning, I accidentally ran across the 
 literary reference that Neil Mogensen was making when he
 called my iris 
 patch the "slough of despond".  It morphed from there
 to the "vale of 
 despair", or as KK calls it, "iris hell".
 
 It's from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress!
 Wiki:
 'This miry Slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is
 the descent 
 whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin
 doth 
 continually run, and therefore is it called the Slough of
 Despond: for 
 still as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition,
 there ariseth 
 in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging
 apprehensions, 
 which all of them get together, and settle in this place;
 and this is 
 the reason of the badness of this ground.'
 
 I didn't realize at the time that it was anything other than
 general 
 "humor".  So for those of you who are long time
 iris-talk readers, I 
 thought I'd share. ;-)
 
 Lots of damage out there from the freeze last? week, week
 before?, but 
 some things are attempting to send up stalks, especially in
 the rows I 
 covered.
 
 Linda Mann
 east TN frost pocket zone 7 USA
 
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