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The Lady in Blue at The Florida Botanical Garden in Largo, Florida.

The building on the right is a restaurant, That is Haunted with a Ghost, called the Blue Lady!
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Lady in Blue -- "In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbingdreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation," or the ability to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, young journalist Carlos Albert is driven by a blinding snowstorm to the little Spanish town of Ágreda, where he stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent founded by this same legendary woman. Intrigued by her rumored powers, he delves into finding out more. These threads, linked by an apparent suicide, eventually lead Carlos to Cardinal Baldi, to an American spy, and ultimately to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Narody unwittingly holds the key to the mystery that the Catholic Church, the U.S. Defense Department, and the journalist are each determined to decipher -- the Lady in Blue." -- from www.amazon.com

A so-so novel...started out intriguing, but the end was a bit of a letdown.
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Demon Lover -- "Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly erotic dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are the result of her having written the bestselling book The Sex Lives of Demon Lovers. Callie’s lifelong passion is the intersection of lurid fairy tales and Gothic literature—which is why she’s found herself at Fairwick’s renowned folklore department, living in a once-stately Victorian house that, at first sight, seemed to call her name.
But Callie soon realizes that her dreams are alarmingly real. She has a demon lover—an incubus—and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then Callie makes another startling discovery: Her incubus is not the only mythical creature in Fairwick. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the demon, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult—banishing this supernatural lover from her heart." -- from www.amazon.com

An interesting book...a lot like her other books (written under her real name: Carol Goodman)...would have been a better novel with less emphasis on the erotic aspects of the story...some of the detailed sexual encounters were extraneous and did nothing to move the plot forward.
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Gideon's Corpse -- "A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before.
Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack.
Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse--far worse--than mere Armageddon." -- from www.amazon.com

A great thriller...didn't guess the bad guy until nearly the end...definitely looking forward to more books in this series.
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Day After Night -- "Day After Night is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for “illegal” immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp who survived the Holocaust: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist; Leonie, a Parisian beauty; Tedi, a hidden Dutch Jew; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor. Haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to hope, the four of them find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country." -- from www.amazon.com

A very moving story...I hadn't heard about these "internment camps" before so it was a bit of a history lesson in addition to being a great story.

The Lady in Blue -- Started: Feb. 4, 2012 Finished: Feb. 12, 2012
The Demon Lover -- Started: Feb. 11, 2012 Finished: Feb. 18, 2012
Gideon's Corpse -- Started: Feb. 11, 2012 Finished: Feb. 15, 2012
Day After Night -- Started: Feb. 16, 2012 Finished: Feb. 16, 2012

25 Book Challenge Books #7, #8, #9 & #10

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What's in a name?! The Meuse River as it flows north from Venlo in Limburg, The Netherlands, is banked by horticulturalist fields of roses, by acres of vegetables and maize, by woodlands and mushroom grottos. Recently it was decided to 'return' the margins of the riverbanks both left and right to 'nature'. Of course, nature was aided by man and by new laws and bylaws regulating the 'naturalisation' of what is now called the Maascorridor.
Our Blue Button's official name in Latin is Knautia arvensis, "Knaut of the Cultivated Fields"; and yet the place where I took this photo is now supposed to be 'natural' and non-cultivated. Indeed: what's in a name!
In his succinct "The Blue Book", Ludwig Wittgenstein begins his discussion of language with the sentence: 'What is the meaning of a word?'. 'Arvensis' I've explained... What's this 'Knautia'? Knautia is for the siblings Christoph (1638-1694) and Christian (1656-1716) Knaut, fine German physicians and especially botanists. The younger brother was a librarian as well, and would have had sympathy for stories with regard to the curious history of Wittgenstein's 'The Blue Book'... Carolus Linnaeus, my hero, had a high regard for the Knauts' botany, and thus named this pretty plant for them. And there's a medical connection as well: Knautia was used as a remedy against the itching of scabies.
I put aside my wandering thoughts and ambled further through the fields to the little chapel at Genooi, where The Lady in Blue is honored...

The tiny details, on a large scale . One of his gifts are the natures.

common names: Ackerwitwenblume.....Synonym name: Knautia bidens
www.kaesekessel.de/kraeuter/a/ackerwitwenblume.htm

Thanks expolere 08.21 #333

Ha nem mácsonya, akkor kérdés, hogy hány cimpája van a virágnak? Ha 5, akkor boldogok vagyunk, már meg is van: ördögszem. Ha 4, akkor döntsük el, hogy a szélső virágok sugárzóak-e, vagy sem? Ha igen, akkor fejvirág (az 1 méter körüli) vagy varfű. Ha nem, és a virágzat nagyjából gömb alakú, akkor ördögharaptafű vagy csonkaír.

Interesting explanation from the flower read it here 02.09.2009.

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