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[deltamiss]

There is a 'sward' (I like that word and rarely get to use it) across the access road into the school campus that is just beautiful right now. The custodians mowed the grass yesterday, and now the area looks like a park.

From this angle you can see how the ground rolls around slightly, and you can see the kudzu-covered scrub trees in the background. The soccer goal is barely visible behind the trees. I wish I could have gotten a clear picture of the yellow and red leaves on the ground. I tried several angles, but none really captured the scope I was looking for as well as this. Plus, it was very overcast today, which means the sky in the picture is muddled. :( Even so, I like the picture.

Photo of the Day...'Sward'...

Comments

[jazzyglo.livejournal.com]

Pretty picture. I'd like to take Toby out there for a run. :)

I've never used the word 'sward'. We have a grassy area near us that we call: the green area, the common area, the grassy area, or the little park. Maybe I'll start dazzling everyone with my great vocabulary and start calling it the 'sward'. :-)

[deltamiss.livejournal.com]

There are a few pretty sights around the school, especially just after the grass has been mowed.

LOL! The fruits of reading historical fiction for years and years! :D

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I really like the picture
The sky gives off a sense of summer gone without the blue
I'm googling kudzu as I don't know what it is :-)
xx

[deltamiss.livejournal.com]

With the cloud cover yesterday, the sky was very drab.

Kudzu! The bane of a Southerner's existence!

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Have they found a good use for Kudzu yet?

I like the photo. I have never heard the word sward before!

[deltamiss.livejournal.com]

There are lots of people who do all sorts of things with it, but apparently none of the projects have caught on.

Now that you've heard the word sward, you MUST use it at least once in the next week. LOL!

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure but I think that one of our back lots might be a small sward?

[deltamiss.livejournal.com]

There now. That wasn't so hard, was it? Studies show if you use a word six times in a week, it becomes part of your very own vocabulary. ;)

If one of your back lots is a sward, it's awfully pretty! :D

[emorrison.livejournal.com]

Personally, I am in awe of the fact that you used the words "sward" and "kudzu" in the same post. I don't think I've ever had the opportunity to use either of them. Go, you!

[deltamiss.livejournal.com]

Hooray for historical fiction! Otherwise, I doubt I'd ever have heard the word sward. ;)

[vocalista001.livejournal.com]

Pretty picture!

I've seen sward but never spoken it....until just now!

"Sward" reminds me of my son's heads a couple of days after they've shaved them up for a swim meet.

I was curious about the etymology of such a funny word:

sward
"grass-covered ground," O.E. sweard "skin, rind" (of bacon, etc.), from P.Gmc. *swarthu- (cf. O.Fris. swarde "skin of the head," M.Du. swarde "rind of bacon," Ger. Schwarte "thick, hard skin, rind," O.N. svörðr "walrus hide"). Meaning "sod, turf" developed c.1300, on notion of the "skin" of the earth (cf. O.N. grassvörðr, Dan. grønsvær "greensward").

[deltamiss.livejournal.com]

"Sward" reminds me of my son's heads a couple of days after they've shaved them up for a swim meet.

Hahahahahaha!

I learned the word by reading a LOT of historical fiction and from crossword puzzles. :/