sweet peas and sassafras
Last night, E was saying something about sweet peas - actual peas that were sweet. But I told him that a sweet pea was a flower. He didn’t believe me. So I found a site about Sweet Peas, but they don’t look like I remember. I remember my mom telling us that these flowers that were on tall stems with a teeny bit smaller than a golf ball sized bud, and it opened up pink. And I was always sad because it was the April flower (my birthmonth), and it didn’t smell very good. 
So what is it that I’m remembering?
Next to where these flowers grew was a beautiful tree called a Sassafras Tree. We liked picking off the different shapes of leaves to find the Michigan shaped ones (and we’d say "I live here" and point to a certain place on the leave ;) Gina do you guys do that too? )
So there’s my nature thoughts of the morning, which I have admittedly vague memories of because it was all before I was 10!
Comments
I’m definitely thinking of the same kind of sweet pea you are... I think of the climbing variety with pink flowers, like these:
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00039.asp
http://www.fragrantgarden.com/sweet_pea_pink.htm
http://freephotos4u.com/garden/sweetpea.html
Posted by: Dara | September 25, 2002 02:17 PM
I *so* love sassafras! Sassafras tea is the best ... hot or cold. I even make sassafras soaps!
Posted by: Lisanne | September 25, 2002 02:48 PM
I can recall when I was a little girl doing that with the Sassafras leaves, but can’t recall that I’ve ever had the pleasure showing my children. I think I’ll have to go find one now
Posted by: Gina | September 26, 2002 05:27 AM
we have always done that. with all sorts of things...not just leaves.
Posted by: erica | September 26, 2002 06:22 AM
are you thinking of paeonys instead of sweet peas?
Golf-ball sized bud, opening to large, unscented flower in white, pink or red/
Posted by: Hatster | June 22, 2005 07:08 AM