It’s time for Wednesday Hodgepodge and Jo has the questions for us to consider.
1. What’s a lesson you’ve learned from a mistake?
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. I’ve made this mistake more than once. I hope I’m learning more and more to get to know a person before I give them a wrong label in my head. Talking to and getting to know someone is a better approach.
2. Do you salt food while you’re cooking or let diners add their own? What’s a food you think must be salted? Do you like pepper?
I do season food as I’m cooking. Avocado tastes best to me salted. Yes, I do like pepper, too.
3. What was the last gathering you attended and what did you do there?
I’m answering these questions on Sunday. We attended church this morning. On this particular Sunday Greg and I were serving by greeting all those who came through the door for the early service. We have other ‘greeter’ responsibilities during the service. Before Sunday School we switch off with the second service greeters and we are free to attend the adult fellowship hour. During the fellowship hour we learned and discussed one of the attributes of God, Everlasting.
4. Your favorite shade of purple?
I enjoy every shade of purple and every purple flower.
What’s your favorite purple flower?
One of my favorites is purple wisteria. The photos above were taken at the Japanese Gardens in Seattle. Other favorites are lilac, clematis and hydrangeas and of course lavender.
5. Share a favorite spring travel memory.
In April of 2004 we took our daughter on a trip to England and Scotland for her graduation gift. It was a wonderful trip and a favorite to remember. We traveled to sites with history of her literary favorites like Tolkien, Lewis, Austen, Rowling, and we threw in a little Monty Python, too. We stayed in Cheltenham, Sheffield, York, Edinburgh and London venturing out to take in nearby cities and sites.
A field of daffodils on the grounds of Chatsworth House ( Pride and Prejudice Pemberley)
Clip clopping with coconuts at Castle Doune with Monty Python.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Speaking of purple, we have 3 graduates in our family from the University of Washington, Greg, Katie and Andrew. Primary Purple and gold are the school colors. Little did Katie know in this photo that she’d graduate from the same University as her father and then her husband, too.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
That purple wisteria is so pretty! Your trip to England sounds amazing- love the literary theme. Some of my favorite authors are British and I’d love to see where they lived and wrote. Love the tie in to purple and its theme color of an important college to you! My kids all went to (or are attending) colleges with red as the primary school color and my and my husband’s alma maters also featured red. Needless to say, I have more red sweatshirts (with various college names on them…) in my closet than any other color!
Beautiful flowers and happy memories, a wonderful post. Take care, have a wonderful day!
…purple is a regal color.
Lovely photos! How time flies.
I just reread Pride and Prejudice and it is still so engaging. I hadn’t read it in decades and I loved it every bit as much as I did the first time I read it. I love all the purple flowers too. In a village near ours in the UK a wisteria vine had been growing all along the row of little cottages for well over 100 years. Completely amazing to see! Hope you have a great day!
I always enjoy your Hodgepodge answers. I love how you and your family embrace life, and take on adventures, the trip to England with your daughter made me smile, my boys would have liked that trip.
I liked your answer to #1.
I LOVE all the flower photos.
Carla
I love Wisteria! I enjoyed so much your answers and all of your beautiful pictures, Ellen. Have a wonderful Wednesday!
That is really good advice not to judge a book by it’s cover, I have many times and have been wrong.
It sounds like a good morning at church and what pretty flowers.
I don’t think we have those purple trees here. They are amazing! Don’t judge a book by it’s cover is an ongoing lesson!
I like the picture in the daffodils! We do that here in the bluebonnets. Good advice/insight on #1. I’m liking all these posts with purple, my favorite color. Happy Hodgepodge!
Such wonderful photos, Ellen! I love the wisteria trees and the field full of daffodils and your memory photo at the end!
Oh, I love the wisteria. I don’t think I knew exactly what that was and now I wish we could grow it here.
Love the field of daffodils.
I like purple wisteria too. We have some here but it isn’t blooming yet.
Oh I didn’t think of wisteria; I love that flower! Those trip photos look wonderful.
Wisteria is so pretty! Every time I see it, I think how much I love it, and then I forget about it. LOL Love those travel photos, especially the field of daffodils! Hope you’re having a great week!
That’s always a good plan for questions #1. I have never salted my avocado. Guess I’ll have to try that. That is a wonderful thing you do at church. What a blessing you are. Those flowers are all so beautiful. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a Wisteria. You photos are all so lovely. That’s a beautiful travel memory. Love your random thought.
Ellen, did you take that picture at top? It is very striking, and hardly looks real!
I am waiting for my wisteria to start blooming any day now. We pruned it less brutally last fall, in such a way that it should make a more glorious show this spring — I hope!
Yes, I did take that photo. It is from the lavender festival in Sequim, Washington. I do hope your wisteria shines this spring!
I think we can all be guilty of judging a book from it’s cover, it’s much better to learn more about someone you are right.
Lots of beautiful purple photo’s, the wysteria looks stunning.
I love wisteria too! My mom and I often eat lunch in the car as we’re out running errands together. We park facing a wooded area and the wisteria is beginning to bloom there now, making for a lovely “restaurant!”
Fun pictures of Katie on her trip to England and as a little girl dressed in purple!