Tansy was used as a moth repellant before the advent of chemical mothballs. Dodie used to store her handspun yarn with tansy and other similarly scented herbs to keep the wool moths away.

Interesting factoid- teasel was used in the weaving industry before the machine age to tease the fibres up from the woven woolen cloth. This gave a slight nap to the cloth, a sort of fuzzy soft feel.

Awww, we're friends. So nice. This is a great online community.

I suppose I could have Googled it too, but it's so much nicer to ask a friend!

Just googled it, and it turns out that the flowers of yukon golds are a light pinky violet with yellow at the base. This is a whole area of weird and wonderful trivia..

I was just discussing this with a friend as we were riding on Westham Island (lots of potatoes growing there). But what colour are the flowers on Yukon Gold potatoes?

Poppy seed heads have seemed so interesting to me since I was a little kid.

Could not find a good image match for the purple flower, but it looks like maybe some kind of verbena.

Yellow flower is tansy.

https://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Tanacetum%20vulgare

Something I recently learned... Proving you are never too old or too educated to learn (The more I know, the more I know I don't know).

Teasel is similar to and easily confused with thistle.

https://garden.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Teasel#:~:text=Teasel%20Is%20Not%20a%20Thistle,can%20help%20you%20identify%20them.

Oh, I wish I were out there in a kayak!

The water looks so calm and inviting.

That’s interesting, but so is Meccano. I’ve never heard of that brand, but I grew up with an Erector Set. I see they’re all one company now. We’re Meccano sets sold in Canada?

Yup, my sister's place is probably somewhere there in that photo. I don't think I've biked to her place since they moved there...but then, it's kind of far from my place to hers and back for just tea and a chat.

A pin-connected truss is sort of like what you might have built with a Meccano set if you had one. Each element is connected by pins at each end and is in either tension or compression but not bending. A classic truss in engineer-speak.

Yes, this surprised me too. You’re a couple of days behind, or you’d know. In the Borderlands post I have a photo of YOUR Sumas mountain and the outskirts of Abbotsford and commented on the same oddity. Your sister’s house is probably in my photo somewhere.

I see that the Wikipedia articles on these two mountains tries to clarify this and says they’re sometimes referred to as American Sumas and Canadian Sumas.

Hee, hee. Ours (elev 1045 m) is much higher than yours (910 m).

You had me really confused. My sister lives in Abbotsford, on the slopes of Sumas Mountain, which is north of the Trans Canada Highway and south of the Fraser River. Imagine my surprise to discover that there are TWO Sumas Mountains! One in BC and one in WA, not really very far apart.