Euphemisms and Encaustic

ABC Wednesday is a word meme with participants from around the world. Our Host, Mrs. Nesbitt hails from Great Britain. Says Mrs. Nesbitt: "Some have been with us from the very first round, others have joined in along the way! What fun! Each week we are taken across the globe to see the varied and exciting contributions people have taken the time to discover and capture! ABC Wednesday is now entering a 3rd year of fun! I'll raise a glass to you all!". We started with the letter, "A" and each week we post something in regards to the next letter of the alphabet. This week's letter is, "E".

Encaustic

Encaustic collage on pine. This one was named, "Liberation" and sold! Yay. Rare, but thrilling for me, nonetheless!

Elecampane

Elecampane has many medicinal properties. The most recent discovery is having anti cancer properties. I am not growing any at the moment and got the image from Google images. I've gone back to look for the link and now it is gone! Otherwise, I'd give credit. A pretty good link for all around herbal info can be found here.

The East End of Molokai

Photo taken by Mark Scott on his point and shoot camera. That is what we call the eastern end of the island: East End. This is the very furthermost eastern part of the island where the mouth of the Halawa Valley river meets up with the sea.

Eggs

These are not real eggs, but my faux rusty eggs in progress. I also have some little ones in progress too. I don't have anything specific in mind for them, but when I need them, they are ready to go!

And the euphemisms? Well, my mom was full of them. Too hard to provide images of that here, but one of the ones that she said A LOT was, "That's the way the cookie crumbles." Kind of a polite way of saying, "Too bad, get over it!". She grew up in the heart of America, in Ashley, Illinois. Many of her euphemisms were very much so mid-Western.

Have an alpha-happy, euphemism filled day!