How Do You Play Hop Scotch Using Negative Numbers?

Didn't even know "minus" numbers existed in the days when we used to play hopscotch along Lowell Avenue's newly cemented sidewalks! (On those previously rocky dirt sidewalks, playing hop scotch had been impossible!)

Photo by MarashGirl©2022

This New England Rabbit Turned Its Back On The Spring's Setting Sun . . .

Photo By MarashGirl©2022

Don't Forget the Rhododendron simsii Planch. Azalea Ericaceae

Photo By MarashGirl©2022

Local Youth Ponders The Sunset . . .

Photo By MarashGirl©2022

Smooth Shadbush Rosaceae Glorifies Spring Gardens!

Amelanchier laevis Wiegand LC = Smooth Shadbush Rosaceae

Photo By MarashGirl©2022

Newton Proclaims Its Support For The Ukraine!

Photo by MarashGirl©2022 Above photo of Albanian flag taken in Newton Lower Falls this past Friday.

REMEMBERING WITH FLOWERS & PRAYERS: NEVER AGAIN, DEAR LORD, NEVER AGAIN!

Every year, on April 24, Marash Girl and Marash Boy go to the Charles River with aching hearts, remembering the attempted eradication of the Armenian people, an attempted genocide conducted by a country that shall remain unnamed here. With prayers that never again shall there be such devastation to any peoples.

Above Photo by MarashGirl©2022

Above Photo by MarashBoy©2022

In Memory . . . Never Again, Dear Lord, Never Again!

In Memory of those Armenian People Who Were Slaughtered 1915-1920 . . . May They Rest In Peace "1915 - NEVER AGAIN!"

Images Taken From The Internet 106 years since the onset of the Genocide of the Armenian People ...Asvadz lousavoreh!

Unknown Photographer N.B. For recordings of interviews with survivors of the Armenian Genocide, go to the United States Library of Congress, or for recordings of these interviews and more information, call the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Massachusetts - (617) 926-2562‬

Wilbraham, Our Wilbraham!

Photo by JohnSimmons©2022

Bougainvillea Glabra Choisy Glorifies Front Yards In The Boston Suburbs!

Photo By MarashGirl©2022

(Not So) Common Periwinkle Greets Passersby On A Spring Day!

Above Photo of Vinca Minor L. By MarashGirl©2022

And Flowers Everywhere Continue to Celebrate!

                                                                                                Photo By MarashGirl©2022

 

Churches Everywhere Were Celebrating The Easter Promise!

                                                                "From Darkness To Light"! 

Rabbits Everywhere Were Preparing For Easter!

 

Above Photos By MarashGirl©2022

HAPPINESS ON EASTER . . . AND EVERY DAY . . . IN ARMENIAN AND ENGLISH!

Greeting on Easter Day:  KRISDOS  HARYAV  Y  MERELOTS!  Christ has risen and conquered death!

Response:  OHRNYAL EH  HAROUTIOUN  KRISDOSI!  Blessed is the resurrection of Christ!

And if you can read Armenian, here it is in the original:  

                                      Քրիստոս Յարեաւ Ի Մէրէլոց:

                                      Օրհնեալ է Յարութիւնն Քրիստոսի:

Thank you, Uncle Paul, for teaching us this important Armenian Easter salutation while we were still young 'uns . . . and for teaching us the true meaning of Easter! 

                                                                                                    Above Photos By MarashGirl©2022

A Hyacinth Blooms In Newton Corner Commemorating Holy Saturday . . .

 

                                                                                                Above Photo By MarashGirl©2022   

Daffodils Bow Their Heads On Good Friday . . .

                                                                                                               Photo By MarashGirl©2022 

                           Narcissus pseudonarcissus L, better known as the daffodil, 

                         bow their heads in remembrance of  Good Friday . . . 

 

A Witch's Moneybags In May?

Photo By MarashGirl©2022 Perhaps Marash Girl should have waited until Halloween to post the photo of this plant, a Witch's Moneybags Hylotelephium telephium (L.) H. (Hylotelephium telephium - Orpine), that appears in her garden in April (the plant, not the photo)! Marash Girl wonders which witch lost the moneybags this past October . . . and which witch gave the plant its name . . . Or perhaps Marash Girl should be using the plant's other name: Garden Stonecrop! More appropriate for a garden in May, don't you think?

This Turkey Is About To Trot Across Maple Avenue

                                                                                                                                        Above Photo By MarashGirl©2022   

Yesterday, after having traversed Maple Circle, this turkey paused to look both ways before trotting across Maple Avenue!                                                                                                                         

Othocallis siberica (Haw.) - Speta Siberian Squill

                       Othocallis siberica (Haw.) Speta Siberian Squill decorates Marash Girl's front yard!

                                                                                                            Photo By MarashGirl©2022 

Sedum spurium M.Bieb. - Caucasian-Stonecrop!

         

                                                                                                                                                  Photo By MarashGirl©2022 

      Sedum spurium M.Bieb. Caucasian-stonecrop

Marash Girl wonders whether her ancestors brought this plant all the way 

from the Caucasus to New England!!!

Welcome Home!

                                                                                                    Photo By MarashGirl©2022 

 

SPRING SPRINGS UP THROUGH THE AUTUMN LEAVES . . . .

 

                                               Crocus vernus (L.) Hill - Spring crocus                                                                                     Photo By MarashGirl©2022 

He, And Many Like Him In This, Our Country, Need Our Help!

"Help me, please, for food . . .  Have 3 kids . . . Need job . . . God Bless U"

                                                                                                                                        Photo By MarashGirl©2022 

                                                                            

On A Grey Spring Day . . . .

On a grey day in spring, daffodils comfort the park bench overlooking the Charles River in Watertown.                                                                                                                                 Above Photo By MarashGirl©2022 

                                                                                                     

Prayers For The People Of Ukraine

                                                                    Photo By MarashGirl©2022     

Crocus nudiflorus Sm. (Knights of St. John Crocus)?

                                                 Crocus nudiflorus Sm. (Knights of St John Crocus)?

                                                                                                                                             Above Photo By MarashGirl©2022 

A View From The Dentist's Office . . .

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The Old Claflin School . . .

And speaking of Miss Forsythe (see yesterday's blogpost) brings to mind the way in which kids at Claflin (Elementary) School responded to taunts from their classmates, insults which were always only a moment away . . .  One such example follows.

When a kid heard the words, "You're a jerk!" . . . her answer, accompanied by a grin, would be as follows:

                        "A jerk is a pull, a pull is a yank, and a Yank is a good American!"

But an easier reply would have been, (and often was), "It takes one to know one!"

And Continuing The Celebration . . . More Flowers!

Please meeet Ficaria verna Huds. Lesser Celandine Ranunculaceae!

Photo by MarashGirl©2022

Miss Forsythe And The Forsythia Bush!

                                                                             Photo By MarashGirl©2022     

Every spring, Marash Girl remembers Miss Forsythe, her fourth grade teacher . . .   reminded her students that every spring, they would remember her . . . Why?  Because her family name was given to the beautiful Forsythia Bush,  a bush which flowers every spring.  And here it is again, for all to enjoy, in Marash Girl's neighborhood park, pictured in the photograph above.

As you can see, Miss Forsythe was right!  Marash Girl remembers Miss Forsythe yet again . . .  year after year . . . and how many years has it been since Marash Girl was in 4th Grade? . . . Marash Girl's not saying!!!!

'WHAT? You're Sending Your Daughter To College?"

'WHAT?  You're sending your daughter  to college? . . .  Oh! You're sending your daughter to college to get an MRS!  Now I understand!"

N.B.  FYI, Marash Girl's father was mortified at the thought . . . as was Marash Girl!  How dare they! Perhaps this memory should have been posted yesterday on April Fool's Day!!!

Remembering Betty & Veronica . . . And An April Fool!

Years ago, when Marash Girl was in her early teens, Cousin G.  (name omitted to protect the innocent . . . or not so innocent) arrived in the United States of America from his home in Paris.  Visiting Marash Girl and her family in their living room for the first time, Cousin G. spotted a then current issue of Betty & Veronica . . .  (not the copy shown below!) In shock, he asked what they (Marash Girl and her sister) were doing reading such “trash” . . . although, as he asked the question, he never once took his eyes off of Betty’s breasts!  

N.B. This is April Fool's Day, is it not?  And who, Marash Girl asks, was the April Fool?

                                                                                                                                                                      Photo By MarashGirl©2022