This lovely forest dweller is White Veined Wintergreen (Pyrola picta). It gave me a fun little bout of research tracking it down as it looked a lot like Prince's Pine (Chimaphila umbellata) but the leaves were all wrong.
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So yes there was a going away party for a coworker so here is a pretty picture!   In any given situation there are certain words that are frowned upon to one degree or another. There are situations where yelling 'fire' is appreciated and even encouraged but in the proverbial crowded theater it is just not a good idea.
As my coworker learned today. No matter how many Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare) one has pulled and ended that day you do not use the word 'massacre' over an open radio broadcast. {picture is unrelated}  The classic trope of "big things come in small packages". Would you believe that this little guy represents on of the most important keystone species on the planet?
Okay it is just a Youtube series called Pop-Cultured and you can hear my question but not see me but it was a good question I thought up on the spot and Peter Mark Richman gives a great answer. The man is a pharmacist turned actor and playwright who has had a supporting role in every decent show from the '50's to the 90's. My Question is a 112:23. It is a fun video and a glimpse at the roots of American Pop-culture in its own right.  I got some wonderful if slightly scattered feedback from a beta-reader today. Made especially meaningful by the fact that this beta-reader owns a store that might carry "Dying Embers".
But when I got back to the apartment it was back to marketing: sending the book out to reviewers and waiting for replies. I am within fifty attempts of my goal of send out 300 requests so that is going well.  It is a common trope to describe and event or some revelation in a story from two different perspectives. The event means something great and important to character A while it means hardly anything to character B. An event can be made fascinating or quite dull and this type of scenario works to develop the characters of both A and B very well.
For instance in my day there was nearly two quarts of Caterpillar free Parry's Rush today. Meanwhile there was a trespasser up at the dorms. Neither was of great significance to anyone outside of the Park but one was a moment of glorious triumph and one a riveting radio drama.  So there are certain words this author has always known but assumed were made up and meaningless. In the course of conversation today the term sass came up repeatedly. My crew began quoting movie lyrics and replacing words with sass. The usual afternoon play. Then the word sassafras entered the mix. (A type of tree.) After that I had the pleasure of informing my crew that, yes, frass is indeed a real word. It refers to the colored excretions trees produce under various stress factors. It can be fun educating the masses, or just making one's crew look at one funny.
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