“Y” can’t I figure this one out?

I’ve been working for a while on what to use for “Y” day and I’ve still “got nothin'”.

If I were to do a “y” plant the only one I can think of is ‘yarrow’, but that doesn’t move me that much. Yarrows always look so vivid in the nursery or on the page, but when I get them to flower in my yard they look ‘dusty’ within one day and ‘snip’ I get rid of the flower head. So, no, to yarrow.

Childhood story for ‘y’? Nope.

So, am I going to concede defeat on “Y” and let it go? Why no, I’ll go hunt up a pretty pictures of ‘yellow’ flowers and move on.

Which leads to this remembrance…at one school we were at in Japan, several teachers formed a ‘gourmet’ club and met once a month to share a really fantastic meal that members contributed to. There were a lot of teachers in that school so a second group of us decided to form our own gourmet group, as the first group was all ready pretty large. Our ‘rules’ were a little more lax.

Yes, we did an “Italian Night” and “Irish Night”, but our best one, in my humble opinion, was for October when we did an “Orange Food” night. Let’s be honest you have to be pretty inventive to come up with a menu for ‘orange’ that isn’t all desserts or all made with oranges. I contributed a stew cooked in a small pumpkin, therefore orange and savory.

So rather than one idea for “Y” I’m giving you a post based basically on the color “yellow” and not “a” plant. And again, my blog, my rules.

As redemption I’ll tell you about May Day, but that means you’ll have to come back May 1st.

Not all the above are in my Tulsa garden, the last one was from Germany almost ten years ago. But you do have to admit they all have yellow somewhere in the picture. More could be found, but I’ll let you go.

Thanks, and tomorrow will wrap with “Z”. Hint, it is not zinnias, although it could have been. And May 1st is May Day so I’ll end this month of letters with one more reflection that involves plants. Maybe you’ll start a new family tradition based on it.