Althouse: At the Pink Peony Café...

May 27, 2010

At the Pink Peony Café...

... a toast!

18 comments:

Unknown said...: the juxtaposition of this gorgeous flower post with the public sex anxiety post is too funny. but i guess you kept the 'hippy lover chick' title for a reason.; 5/27/10, 7:38 PM
traditionalguy said...: My complments to the artist that accidentally created that magnificent flower.; 5/27/10, 7:38 PM
Unknown said...: ah. safety.; 5/27/10, 7:59 PM
chickelit said...: Althouse: A toast?

To what?

danielle: ah. safety

LOL

Was that rude or what?; 5/27/10, 8:02 PM
Ann Althouse said...: @danielle The peony is quite sexy.; 5/27/10, 8:11 PM
Unknown said...: My compliments, Madame. You're on a roll with your floral images, so bright and beautiful.

It's nice that you get off (metaphorically, of course) on Nature.

Ann Althouse said...

@danielle The peony is quite sexy.

You mean like the pomegranate?; 5/27/10, 8:20 PM
Unknown said...: maybe the peony is sexy. but i doubt it will inspire old men to tell their favorite sex tales with TMI.

in the wise words of Whodini , they're coming out, and they've got a thread to go to town on.

=); 5/27/10, 8:22 PM
Meade said...: maybe the peony is sexy. but i doubt it will inspire old men to tell their favorite sex tales with TMI.

"old men"

I could be wrong but I think the politically correct term nowadays is something more like "subhumans."; 5/27/10, 8:42 PM
Unknown said...: i know, i know -- the qualifier will get me in trouble here.

never is fun to hear men discussing their exploits, but when done by men beyond a certain age, it moves from TMI to disturbing.; 5/27/10, 8:54 PM
sunsong said...: Glorious, thank you.

"Each flower is a voice of nature, quietly bringing its song to the morning and adding grace to the day." ~ Flavia; 5/27/10, 9:06 PM
Gretchen said...: Our peonies are blooming, a bit early. They normally bloom for our anniversary (next week), not Memorial Day. The original plants bloom for Memorial Day every year- these are transplants from a family cemetery in Kansas... guess it's either the "global warming" or a late Memorial Day.

At any rate- they're blooming and are glorious!; 5/27/10, 9:22 PM
HKatz said...: From Mary Oliver's poem, Peonies:

This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart
as the sun rises,
as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers; 5/27/10, 9:55 PM
KCFleming said...: On the last peony post down, my faith was renewed by a number of commenters.

I've been in class all week, away from the keyboard by force, and didn't thank one and all in time.

Peonies bring out the best in folk.; 5/27/10, 10:15 PM
Phil 314 said...: Growing up our peonies always had lots of ants crawling over them; 5/27/10, 11:26 PM
JAL said...: A fabulous toast!

Thank you!; 5/27/10, 11:33 PM
JAL said...: You are so sly TradGuy.

;-); 5/27/10, 11:33 PM
Caroline said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/27/10, 11:58 PM
As my whimsy leads me.. said...: Gretchen, Peonies have always been my mother's Memorial Day grave decorating flower of choice. She's in Kentucky (as I think I've mentioned probably to excess here), and they were usually almost to their peak by Memorial Day. This year, they are going full throttle. I think it's because we've had a weird Spring--overly cold early, and then really warm in April. Things have been blooming willy-nilly, without waiting for their usual assigned entrances. I'm not complaining, though.

Toy; 5/28/10, 12:22 AM