Seeded Earth

The favorite violet in the Wisconsin Violet Contest was the tried and trusty, true blue violet - the Common Blue Violet. The final tally was:

Common Blue Violet (lawn-infesting, jelly ingredient) - 10

Confederate Violet (mutant soldier) - 5

Sweet White Violet (perfumed gymnast) - 5

Downy Blue Violet (whiskery butterfly) - 2

And the winner of the drawing for the two prizes was determined by using a random number generator on the Internet. I am constantly amazed at the things I find on the Internet, courtesy of the wisdom and direction of my computer-generation children!

Comment 18 was chosen by Mac (and some random random program) and the comment reads:

Without question (the Confederate violet) is the most brilliant. Meanwhile, I’m so shocked that violets are wild in your part of the world. How amazing is that? To be as common as a dandelion? Wow, that would make for a much more prettier yard then grows in the west. I had to move onto twenty acres to get wildflowers in my yard!

and it was written by aullori!

And that is super nice, because aullori is a frequent visitor to Seeded Earth and has a super wonderful blog of her own, Random Musings, where she posts about the natural wonders of her home state, Washington. And if you love birds, you have got to visit, for her birding photos are great enough to have been borrowed from Audubon, but they truly are her very own.

So congratulations. aullori gets her choice of either a baseball cap or canvas tote emblazoned with the logo from Madison’s world famous Farmers’ Market. Rah rah rah!  And also an 8 x 10 photograph from Seeded Earth Photography - her choice. I’ll be in touch PDQ.

Thanks to the over 100 visitors that checked out the violet post and to each of the 22 of you who left a comment. We can all do this again, next time.

Bo