Atticus Finch
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I think this may be an Easter Lilly, but I could be wrong. Whatever it is, these flowers grow wild along the ditch banks in my county. I don't think they are indigenous to North Carolina. I've never seen them growing wild anywhere else in our state. I suspect that some local person, maybe decades ago, threw a hand full of bulbs out and they took root. Or perhaps they escaped from a funeral arrangement left in a country cemetery. Anyway, they now grow prolifically around here almost everywhere they're not mowed down.
Odd thing is...they don't bloom at Easter, or even in the spring. They bloom every year at the beginning of the Cape Verde hurricane season.
It’s uncanny. When I see the first white lilly bloom in Jones County, I can also count on seeing the first tropical low form off the Cape Verde Islands. In fact, I snapped this photo yesterday and today we have the first Cape Verde low on the tracking maps. OK. I understand that association is not causation, but this sort of thing has happened so often I call these darn flowers “Hurricane Bugles”. I'm almost of the belief that they bloom here to “trumpet” in the hurricane season.
AF
Odd thing is...they don't bloom at Easter, or even in the spring. They bloom every year at the beginning of the Cape Verde hurricane season.
It’s uncanny. When I see the first white lilly bloom in Jones County, I can also count on seeing the first tropical low form off the Cape Verde Islands. In fact, I snapped this photo yesterday and today we have the first Cape Verde low on the tracking maps. OK. I understand that association is not causation, but this sort of thing has happened so often I call these darn flowers “Hurricane Bugles”. I'm almost of the belief that they bloom here to “trumpet” in the hurricane season.
AF
