A Midsummer Day’s Blues . . .
Blue Flower Bathed in White Sun
(NYC 07 2017)
I continue to contend the sun as a star may have shifted more to the white, so strong is its midsummer light; it’s that bright.
Light, the favorite food of the perennial Plant, capital P, fills one fan found now on open lawns and streetsides as urban as the hyperdeveloping West Village. This immigrant citizen is the blue daisy of summer days: Chicory.
This blue Asteraceae, Cichorium intybus, had been in Europe a wildflower used for a bitter green and, later, its roots roasted and ground as a complement or addition to coffee once that sweetbitter bean had been introduced conversely through colonization.
Find chicory today, in bloom now, sometimes see it sprinkled like pale nonpareils on a lawn.
Chicory Nonpareils
(NYC 07 2017)
Chicory bathes in full sun as the summer’s other signature blue petals open in the shade, each one for just a day, and given the hot intensity of the seemingly white sunlight, sometimes just for a morning; a bright one, but a good one.
Commelina communis – Asiatic dayflower
Dayflower With Visitor
(NYC 07 2017)
A midsummer day’s blues are in full bloom about the west side of Manhattan.
— rPs 07 18 2017
Wildflowers of the West Village 