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[Lil Wayne]
Hi, I’m Tune, the man on the moon
I live on the beach, get the sand out ya shoes
And all of that changed since I met you
So we can leave that old shit in the restroom
noo Money!
[J Lo]
You’ve got me and I could not defend it
I tried but I had to surrender
Your style got me under the spell
Let me no other choice but to get down
It’s too late, it’s too late
It’s too late, it’s too late
You’ve got it, you’ve got it
You’ve got it, you’ve got it
When I look into your eyes, it’s over
You’ve got me hooked with your love controller
I’m trippin’ and I could not get over
I’m into you, I’m into you
I’m into you, yeaaah
I’m into you, I’m into you
I’m into you, yeaaah
Nana nananana nana-na-eh
Nana nananana nana-na-eh
Listen, now I’m strong baby I bring the fire on
week shooter you can call me the zion
I’m the one easy to get to
But all that changed, baby when I met you
It’s too late, it’s too late
It’s too late, it’s too late
You’ve got it, you’ve got it
You’ve got it, you’ve got it
I’m into you, I’m into you
I’m into you, yeaaah
I’m into you, I’m into you
I’m into you, yeaaah
Ok, I’m into you, like you never knew
I’m falling for you baby, I need a parachute
So wet, I need a wetsuit
You’re way too fly, I could be ya jet fuel
Now tell me what you like
I like what you tell me
And if you understand me, you can overwhelm me
It’s too late, it’s too late
Every finish line is the beginning of a new race
When I look into your eyes, it’s over
You’ve got me hooked with your love controller
I’m trippin’ and I could not get over
Comfortable clothing helps considerably. Sweat pants, a loose fitting shirt and soft shoes allow for free movement and are highly recommended. At least at first. Soon you will discover you can find four-leaf clovers no matter what kind of clothing you prefer. From formal to casual, business suit to bathing suit, anything goes! All you need is the willingness to look along the way.
Where & When To Look
Once dressed comfortably for your first foray, start by looking in the largest clover field you can find. If you live in a city, you are most likely to find the healthiest clover clusters on grassy areas near highway interchanges.
Parks are nice, of course, but the most prolific clover patches tend to be found in thicker, grassy places off the beaten path. Finding new places to explore is half the fun of discovery.
Recently mowed fields should be avoided for obvious reasons. Front yards offer the novice four-leaf clover explorer a protected place to begin – so do school yards and church lawns
Sunny days make the quest that much more pleasant. You are at once soothed by the warmth and assisted by the light. But drizzly days can be relaxing, too, though such weather can make the search a bit more challenging.
Search Tip
Only daylight hours are suitable for clover searching. Fours have a habit of going to bed early and close their leaves at dusk.
Another Thing To Consider
When you begin to look, in whatever weather, be sure to consider your tolerance for
public scrutiny. If you are highly visible during your search, curious people will inquire about youractivity. Cultivate an attitude of adventure and always maintain the determination to succeed.Your rewards will be many.
What To Bring Along
If you expect to be out looking for four-leaf clovers for any extended period of time, take along a cup or pail of water. Clovers stay fresh floating on the surface – stems down. If held in your hand, they will wilt.The more colorful the water-holder, the better. After extensive roaming, it’s easier to bring fours back to a bright, easily seen container. In dense fields, you might lose sight of it altogether. While this can be a distraction, and sometimes a slight aggravation, don’t let this interrupt the fun. Search for fours at the same time you search for your bucket!
Pressing Matters
You may choose to bring a book along and press your treasures right away. Your choice of book is particularly important. Size determines the stamina required for toting. Selection of subject matter, though an esoteric consideration, essentially infuses the four-leaf clovers with the spirit of the page. Poetry, dictionaries and classical fiction seem to make the best pressing beds. Be advised that once inserted, clovers should be left alone for at least two weeks to ensure proper dehydration. You can expect wrinkles and a pleasing, delicate parchment effect on the pages where the clovers have dried.
Now that you know the ground rules, you are ready to set out on your first four-leaf clover adventure. Your search provides a wonderful opportunity for discovery and relaxation. So, start looking. Be prepared for wondrous results.
Sit, squat or enjoy a sublime recline in the middle of a clover patch.Don’t look at each clover – ultimately it’s boring, and it might make you impatient since there are hundreds of clovers
to consider. Instead, un-focus your eyes. This means rather than seeing one clover clearly in the center of your vision, take all of the clovers within a one-foot square range into view. Do this with evenly blurred sight. This relaxed way of looking puts the clovers on a flat plane. Your field of vision becomes two dimensional and lacks depth perception. This is the secret to detecting fours. A generalized overview, not specific inspection, makes the precious four-leaf clover vibrate distinctly among the common threes. Suddenly, the fours will stand out conspicuously, among the threes, as if red in a field of green!
When you relax your eyes, you encourage the four-leaf clovers to magically appear.
Please note, squinting does notqualify as relaxed!
My superpower is being able to find four-leaf clovers. It’s not very handy but, hey, the luck might rub off. This patch was one I spotted next to a sidewalk last month and it was so full of perfect four and five-leaf clovers I couldn’t bring myself to actually pick any.
Staring at that patch I realized that I still didn’t know if four-leaf clovers are caused by mutation or a recessive gene and looking at the Wikipedia article on four-leaf clovers it appears that the answer is that science doesn’t really know either, that it’s sort of both. Some points about clover that I particularly liked from that entry:
Each leaf is believed to represent something: the first is for faith, the second is for hope, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck.
Clovers can have more than four leaves: the most ever recorded is 56, discovered by Shigeo Obara of Morioka, Japan, on May 12, 2009. (Editor’s note: daaamn.) There is a photograph.
A five-leaf clover is known as a rose clover. That is so lovely.
There are reports of farms in the US which specialize in four-leaf clovers, producing as many as 10,000 a day by feeding a secret, genetically engineered ingredient to the plants to encourage the aberration. (Are GMO four-leaf clovers still lucky? I think not darling.)
By the way, I find that early Summer and early Autumn are the best times to look for four-leaf clovers. They appear most in clover beds that have been undisturbed for a while (meaning: nobody has cut the grass in a while). My favorite place to look for clovers is in farm fields while walking through a pumpkin patch. The biggest and most perfect four-leaf clovers I’ve ever seen were in a fallow patch of a community garden. Go forth and stare intently at the ground. And good luck.
today I went to a seashore
laid myself on one of the huge rocks laid by the shore there
underneath the sun
used my shirt as a pillow beneath my head
covered my head with some portion of the shirt to protect my head from overheating
laid there like that for more than an hour
listening to the waves
birds
and waves
feeling the heat of the sun and the chill of the breeze
after a while, decided to have a walk by the shore
and returned back to the spot, but taking another path by some green area
it was then I found
first, a 5 leaf clover
and then a 4 leaf clover
I was happy, I looked at them for a while
tried to memorize where that spot is
I did not want to pluck them, you shall not pluck 4 leaf clovers
else the 4 leaf clover goddess will be sad
you won’t be cursed, she’s not violent
but she’ll hold the blessings she would grant
I headed back to my spot, my rock on the shore
then I decided to get back to see if I can find them again
I was able to
I returned back to my spot
Laid on the rock a little more
texted the one, that I’m grateful she was born
it was her birthday
I texted another friend where he is,
he did not return, I was going to ask for a bowling
we had been mad at each other for a long while,
understandable that he didn’t return
Anyway, went to eat some mushroom pizza with black pepper
cheese was bad, left one slice, couldn’t continue
Went back to my clovers
made them wiggle by touching them with the tip of my index finger
Are four-leaf clovers becoming more common? That was the question put to me by a reader recently. Apparently her kids are finding four-leaf clovers on a daily basis as they walk home from school. What gives?
While it is possible that her children are simply amazing four-leaf clover finders, it’s more likely that the “four-leaf clovers” they are finding aren’t clover at all.
When most of us think of clover, we think of white clover, or Trifolium repens. It’s the extremely common clover, with little white flowers, that can be found invading lawns and open spaces around the world. (That’s white clover in the image at the top of this post.)
White clover normally has three leaves, though mutations can result in four-leafed specimens. These mutations are uncommon, with only about 1 in 10,000 white clover plants having four leaves. However, in 2009, South Korean researchers reported that they were able to induce higher rates of four-leaf mutations by exposing the plants to low levels of radiation during pollination.
Since irradiated clover is unlikely to crop up alongside the sidewalks of central North Carolina, it is probably not responsible for the four-leaf clovers being found by our curious reader and her kids.
“However, there are also a number of plants that look like clover and have three or four leaflets,” says John Dole, head of the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State University. “In particular, Oxalis tetraphylla (also known as O. deppei) has spread from cultivation and I have seen it in various places, including the woods near my house. It has four leaflets and is actually known as four-leaf clover in some places.”
O. tetraphylla is also known as four-leaf sorrel or Iron Cross, and it does look a lot like a four-leafed white clover. The primary difference is that the center of O. tetraphylla is often tinged with purple – and it does not produce the white flowers we normally associate with white clover.
Remember creating flower jewelry when you were a child? You may have forgotten how much fun it can be as. From making rings, necklaces and bracelets to placing them in their hair, your child will have fun, even if it’s for a few moments.
The longer the stem the easier to twist and braid or tie.
Don’t forget to search for a four leaf clover while you’re sitting down creating your jewelry!
To the “experts,” of course, these are not truly wildflowers. But so what. They act like they are. And they ask to be recognized for their form and colors alone. The four-leaf clover has been around for centuries. It occurs one out of 10,000 times. So keep looking and finding it give Mother Luck the credit. Even more rare are five-leaf clovers.
Once in a while I can remember a Latin name because it is relevant. This genus of most clovers is Trifolium, —three petals — and it is musical to boot. The Irish think so, for it is their shamrock.
The clovers are a happy bunch because their use throughout the world as forage for livestock is not accompanied by danger of discomfort to animals, so often the case where beauty has its price. It can be mowed and rapidly will spring up again, and it is a legume, which means its roots encourage nitrogen-fixing bacteria to have their day improving the earth. It flourishes in an alkaline soil, for if soil is acid, pests are encouraged and they can then make the animals miserable. Honeybees pollinate the clovers. Their nectar is a joy for beekeepers.
In these photos, the close-up is of the rose clover that lines roads on such as Atlas Peak, always as just a dull pink mat, and is meant to give it this clover the charm it deserves. Yes, you can see this up-close beauty, but a Nikon is more revealing. The other clovers, seen here and there, and are the red clover, tomcat clover and smooth owl’s clover.
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