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I went to one of my favourite sims with the plan to take a picture, and eventually  photoshop it into a painting, to have displayed on my digital fireplace. So why not make a picture just because.

As it is common knowledge, the victorian times were a restrictive society in the surface, yet things are always more complex. The Lenguaje of Flowers was a kind of dictionary of what flowers meant, in order to say what was badly seen with words or could not be done so easily, such as a declaration of love or an insult.*

Apparently for the victorians the hydrangeas were a symbol of dispassion and were given to heartless person, so if you were given this flower, you were in trouble. The Hydrangeas change color when the ph of the soil is too alkaline, turning from blue to pink, so they were meant for someone voluble.

In Japan it seems they have a bad note too, yet they also have a beautiful meaning, as it stands for silent devotion**.

So on this note, blueberrys stand for eternal optimism, raspberrys for matters of the heart, and the camellias for devotion, gratitude and spiritual growth. So all in all we have a beautiful story here…only waiting to be told.

* https://archive.org/details/languageofflower00gree/page/10

* http://blog.alientimes.org/2011/06/hydrangea-ajisai-%E7%B4%AB%E9%99%BD%E8%8A%B1-in-japanese-history-and-culture-revisited/

Hair pice by lode and kimono by Zenith.

Here is the LM if someone wants to take a stroll:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ahiru/56/42/2502