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On Facebook yesterday, Aric Olnes, with a floral message brought to us by the letter M (he does a daily alphabetic floral message):

(1) Aric: Matchlessly magniloquent Michaelmas modifies miserable moping motivating meliorative mindfulness

Tim Evanson then messed around with it in a minor way:

Miss Marple is always admiring the Michaelmas daisies just before a murder, it seems

Abandoning all alliteration on the model M, I responded to the actual content of Tim’s proposal:

Well, the most salient thing about Michaelmas daisies is that they’re autumnal, harbingers of frost and withering away, so naturally foreshadowing death

Thereby changing the subject and making any further playful responses to Aric difficult. Spoilsport!

Then on the flowers themselves, see my 10/5/13 posting “Michaelmas daisies”, with this illustration, of a different species:

(2) Michaelmas en masse

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