There is an old wives' tale of Jesus' cross being made of Dogwoods. It is said the flowers represent Christ hanging from the cross. Each flower petal is brown or red at the end representing the blood of Christ.. Because of the terrible deeds for which this tree was used for, God made the Dogwood forever stunted so no one could be hung on a cross of Dogwood ever again.
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hello friend...the pictures are so prety of the nature. it is fun for you to share with us a picture of yourself. i missed you when i was in the hospital and thought of you often. there was a young man who reminded me of you with his talking about loving storms and weather and such.
i am doing MUCH better.is your regular email account working again and can you email me with that other address.i ON ACCIDENT erased your comment with that info on it. please if you do get a chance i would like that information and was bummed when i erased it and then erased the trash file and so sorry again o.k. if you look at my post you would see i have a large list of lj's and i think i will go back and add your pictures to my list. take great care of yourself.
O.K. oops i had a brain freeze i guess thinking after i mentioned about your comment that i stil have the comments on my blog.
Beautiful story for a beautiful flower.
I miss my dogwood. It was too close to the house and had to go. My mistake.
I've successfully stayed away from the peanuts for days now. I have had 4 Hershey miniatures Dark Chocolate bars. They're just as bad. I saw the chocolate pie recipe at PW's place. I'm with the no raw eggs camp. I just don't like the idea.
And to answer your question, it's Spongebob Squarepants!
I know that story well and I've told it many times to my kids and husband, who proclaims to be very religious but has never heard the story. Maybe it's a Southern thing?
I love that story, but never heard it before!
Thanks for telling it
B~
I have never heard that before either. I love dogwoods, probably because there was one in my backyard growing up. Something about the things that remind us of childhood..
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