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Goldenrod Memories

Goldenrod

 

These were both taken about 2 years ago.

Goldenrod & Bee

Goldenrod has a bad rap.
It really is a great wildflower
&
the golden pollen
provides the foundation for great honey

Goldenrod

Goldenrod
monkton,vt

It is the source of the best golden honey.
The source also of the myth that it is the allergen responsible for
ragweed allergies (so I heard and hold on to.)
It is just the most visible culprit, ragweed looking kind of ragged
and dull.
Goldenrod & Ragweed bloom at the same time and often together
in the same old field.
When my Dad was much younger and I was knee high to him,
I rushed home one day with a giant bouquet of
Goldenrod.
It was his birthday and I wanted to give him something special.
His reaction was seriously dissaproving and also repulsion, covering
his mouth and nose lest he have worse allergy symptoms.
He was already hacking and sneezing in the humid soggy late summer
thick pollen laden air.
I quickly ran out the door and threw them somewhere,
not sure what I had done, learning again
that sometimes a good deed just comes out wrong,
and Dad really dislikes the pretty golden flowers I found beside the road.

Goldenrod & First frost

Goldenrod before the frost.
A friend said her father used to look for goldenrod,
and follow a bee to the hive to gather honey.
He said that bees on goldenrod made the best honey.

Well we had our first frost,
kind of a light one.
But the goldenrod is all brown now.
A sign winter is coming.
Picked tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, broccoli.