Where? I live in BC and I don't recall seeing any (maybe I don't know how to recognize them). In any case, they're not found on the prairies.
Point taken.
What should be the official Bird and Flower of Canada?
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They (wild roses) are not on the west coast, and I never saw any when I was back east.
I still think the dandelion is the only flower we've all seen all the time from Victoria to Saint Johns.
Hmm... not really, so I'll keep my eyes open...
But still, it's not found in Quebec nor the Atlantic region.
I don't care what you've seen. The wild rose is not only found in AB.
Nonsense.
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I haven't picked a flower yet. I only stated that the majority of people around the world think that the maple leaf on our flag is a cannabis leaf.
I like moss.
Moss is everywhere. It even grows on some of the forum members.
I'm leaning towards the Raven. Crows are smart, but Ravens are supposed to be even smarter, and even spooky.
I had a roommate who was camping, and she thought she heard a group of people having a party outside her tent just when the sun was coming up, so she got up to tell them to pipe-down because she was hung-over and wanted to sleep some more, and she discovered that it was a Coven of Ravens perched on a tree, chortling to each other in a way that sounded like human crowd-talk.
I'm leaning towards the Raven. Crows are smart, but Ravens are supposed to be even smarter, and even spooky.
I had a roommate who was camping, and she thought she heard a group of people having a party outside her tent just when the sun was coming up, so she got up to tell them to pipe-down because she was hung-over and wanted to sleep some more, and she discovered that it was a Coven of Ravens perched on a tree, chortling to each other in a way that sounded like human crowd-talk.
They're highly intelligent birds. Where I used to live, in the middle of winter they'd go perch on the light posts and spread their wings down and over it so that they'd trip the 'eye' and make the light think it was night out. it would turn on, and warm their perch for them.
Yeah... and grass grows everywhere... and it does have a teeny-tiny flower if you look real close... and it *does* come with a connotative meaning that equates it to the "bud".
It doesn't have to be a plant that only exists in Canada. I mean crumb... what did the Americans declare to be their Official National Flower? The Rose. The ROSE?!? Yeesh.
When I think of a bird that I take so for granted that I can't image home without it, I think of house sparrows and seagulls and crows, and when I think of flowers that are an intrinsic part of my environment I think of dandelions in my lawn and in my garden and growing everywhere else I look.
Anyway, I suppose we could idealize it like the Americans did with the Rose.
In that case, maybe the official flower should be the Crocus, which blossoms through snow.
Hmm... well... the Raven *is* one of the Haida's most sacred animals.
I'm just wild about saffron.Yeah... and grass grows everywhere... and it does have a teeny-tiny flower if you look real close... and it *does* come with a connotative meaning that equates it to the "bud".
It doesn't have to be a plant that only exists in Canada. I mean crumb... what did the Americans declare to be their Official National Flower? The Rose. The ROSE?!? Yeesh.
When I think of a bird that I take so for granted that I can't image home without it, I think of house sparrows and seagulls and crows, and when I think of flowers that are an intrinsic part of my environment I think of dandelions in my lawn and in my garden and growing everywhere else I look.
Anyway, I suppose we could idealize it like the Americans did with the Rose.
In that case, maybe the official flower should be the Crocus, which blossoms through snow.
Hmm... well... the Raven *is* one of the Haida's most sacred animals.
Yeah I can see a bird that will piss you off by stealing your tent pegs and flatten you quad tire because you threw rocks at it for squawking at the crack of dawn being sacred especially after taking a sweat with juniper on the fire. They are devious and revengeful.
Do you yell at the crack of dawn just for ****s and giggles. I'm fully aware of who the antagonist was.
I just got an idea.
Let's *make* a unique Canadian flower! It's just plant genetics, and it's okay to fiddle with plant genetics. If you study genetics, you'll see how plant chromosomes were *made * to be flexible, so it's not like fiddling with animal genes, which can be very dangerous.
Specifically, let's start with a flower that we know grows from coast to coast - the dandelion - and make a strain that produces red flowers, and another strain that produces blue flowers.
Then we turn them loose in the wild.
The new strains will propagate, so now you'll have lawns and gardens with colorful, red, blue and yellow sprinklings of dandelion, which will be prettier, and which will allow for more excuses to not be pestered by the missus to weed the lawn and/or garden.
But where it gets interesting is when they start to hybridize. You'll get strains with orange blossoms, and purple blossoms, and green blossoms, and every colour in-between.
It will spread over the whole planet, and it can be said that it's Canada's contribution to the colourful beauty of an otherwise mundane world. When people see a dandelion that's red or blue, it will be said that it's a "Canadian dandelion, the national flower of Canada".
Cool, eh?
Hmm, wait a sec...
Anti-GMists will scream about it being "potentially toxic and destructive meddling with nature" (even though it's just fiddling with the colour genes, using the same genes that give red and blue flowers their colour, which nature never complained about before)...
But the worst part will be how American televangelists - hungry for ratings - will use it as a platform to scream about how red, blue and yellow dandelions hybridize to produce a rainbow of colours, which is like the gay flag, therefore "Canadian dandelions" will be called an attempt by socialist-royalist-communist-monarchist Canucks to infect their lawns and gardens with gay dandelions, whereupon American Evangelicals, Baptist, and Pentecostalists will freak out and demand that Canada atone for its sin by giving them all its water!
*Sigh*
So many ways to make the world a more pleasant place, and so many blank-brains blocking it.
Let's *make* a unique Canadian flower! It's just plant genetics, and it's okay to fiddle with plant genetics. If you study genetics, you'll see how plant chromosomes were *made * to be flexible, so it's not like fiddling with animal genes, which can be very dangerous.
Specifically, let's start with a flower that we know grows from coast to coast - the dandelion - and make a strain that produces red flowers, and another strain that produces blue flowers.
Then we turn them loose in the wild.
The new strains will propagate, so now you'll have lawns and gardens with colorful, red, blue and yellow sprinklings of dandelion, which will be prettier, and which will allow for more excuses to not be pestered by the missus to weed the lawn and/or garden.
But where it gets interesting is when they start to hybridize. You'll get strains with orange blossoms, and purple blossoms, and green blossoms, and every colour in-between.
It will spread over the whole planet, and it can be said that it's Canada's contribution to the colourful beauty of an otherwise mundane world. When people see a dandelion that's red or blue, it will be said that it's a "Canadian dandelion, the national flower of Canada".
Cool, eh?
Hmm, wait a sec...
Anti-GMists will scream about it being "potentially toxic and destructive meddling with nature" (even though it's just fiddling with the colour genes, using the same genes that give red and blue flowers their colour, which nature never complained about before)...
But the worst part will be how American televangelists - hungry for ratings - will use it as a platform to scream about how red, blue and yellow dandelions hybridize to produce a rainbow of colours, which is like the gay flag, therefore "Canadian dandelions" will be called an attempt by socialist-royalist-communist-monarchist Canucks to infect their lawns and gardens with gay dandelions, whereupon American Evangelicals, Baptist, and Pentecostalists will freak out and demand that Canada atone for its sin by giving them all its water!
*Sigh*
So many ways to make the world a more pleasant place, and so many blank-brains blocking it.
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