the cassandra pages: Palms for Passiontide

April 10, 2017

Palm tree and live oaks at Anwar and Mary Anne's, Jacksonville, Florida. Watercolor.

Palm branches overhead, Mexico City.

A pencil drawing of Quebec-style braided palms, from 2013

Nahuatl (Aztec) braided palm crucifixes and bundles of sacred herbs, Mexico City

Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral decorated for Palm Sunday

Happy Easter Beth and Jonathan and much love.

A grand collection. Happy Easter to both of you! (And Natalie.)

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In the Iliad, she is described as the loveliest of the daughters of Priam (King of Troy), and gifted with prophecy. The god Apollo loved her, but she spurned him. As a punishment, he decreed that no one would ever believe her. So when she told her fellow Trojans that the Greeks were hiding inside the wooden horse...well, you know what happened.