Edelweiss.
I usually say daisies are the friendliest flowers, but for today, I’m going to say edelweiss is the friendliest flower.
Because it starts with E, and I wasn’t going to pick a weirdly exotic word although now that I think of it, I might have had some fun sending you, dear reader, off on a wild goose chase.
Or maybe not. Instead, I’ll regale you with a mushy little love story. Mine.
When John and I were married, he was serving in the US Army in what was then West Germany. We lived in a beautiful little town, Bamberg, and all of Western Europe was our playground.
Austria was just a short drive away, and we went often. The Alps, you know, ARE RIGHT THERE!
And edelweiss grows in the Alps.
So my honey picked a lot of edelweiss for me to put in my hair. It was very long in those days, curly and black. I looked like Yvonne de Carlo.
And he looked like Christopher Plummer.
Do you know where this is going?
Yes.
He often sang Edelweiss to me.
Aww that was sweet 🙂
Bhavya from the AtoZ Challenge blogging at Just Another Blog
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It was also his fathers favorite song – he would sing it to us always – sweet to know that he sang it to you in Germany – very romantic 🙂
Guess I should thank you for replacing Please Don’t Stop the Music with Edelweiss as the song de jour stuck in my head. 🙂 Sound of Music is a Das Schmidt Haus fav. What a cute story.
That is so romantic and Sound of Music-y —just like the children frolicking in the hills singing!
I can’t help but think of John when I hear the word or the song-I remember him singing it to the kids when they were babies. So sweet! <3
What woman wouldn’t swoon at an Edelweiss serenade?
P.S. This randomly reminded me of my favorite Bonanza character, Adam, who wore black and played guitar. Unfortunately, he had a sorta butt chin thing going on.
butt chins are a bit tragic, but a sexy beard or goatee can fix that 🙂