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Saturday, February 20, 2010 – Some Pansies

Pansy, West Hollywood, Saturday, February 20, 2010

Yeah, yeah – West Hollywood is full of pansies. Forget the cheap joke. It really is full of pansies, and these are curbside on San Vicente.

These are absurd flowers – quite silly looking. But before the cultivated pansy had been developed they were known as Heartsease (Heart's Ease) – and in this tale or that used in love potions. And there's the folklore – like Ophelia's line in Hamlet (Act IV, Scene V) – "There's pansies, that's for thoughts." You see, if a maiden found a honeyflower and a pansy left for her by an admirer that meant "I am thinking of our forbidden love." Of course Ophelia was going quite mad at the time.

And these are also a little ragged around the edges, as it had rained hard overnight.

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.


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