{"id":11427,"date":"2011-12-23T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T18:19:12","slug":"creative-prompt-136-holly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/creative-prompt-136-holly\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #136: Holly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heigh Ho, The Holly<\/strong>
\nBlow, blow, thou winter wind,
\nThou art not so unkind
\nAs man’s ingratitude;
\nThy tooth is not so keen,
\nBecause thou art not seen,
\nAlthough thy breath be rude.
\nHeigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the green holly;
\nmost friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
\nThen, heigh ho, the holly!
\nThis life is most jolly.<\/p>\n

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
\nThat dost not bite so nigh
\nAs benefits forgot:
\nThough thou the waters warp,
\nThy sting is not so sharp
\nAs friend remember’d not.
\nHeigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the green holly:
\nmost friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
\nThen, heigh ho, the holly!
\nThis life is most jolly.
\n~William Shakespeare<\/p>\n

Holly Golightly<\/p>\n

holly tree<\/p>\n

European holly<\/p>\n

Holly Springs (place in Jan Karon’s Mitford series)<\/p>\n

holly berries<\/p>\n

Holly Hobbie<\/p>\n

Buddy Holly<\/p>\n

Mt. Holly<\/p>\n

Definition<\/a>: Ilex is a genus belonging to the family of the Aquifoliaceae<\/a>, native of Afro-Eurasia<\/a>, Australia and the Americas, established by Carl Linnaeus<\/a>. It has over 300 species in the subtropical regions of both hemispheres. The genus includes species of trees, shrubs, and climbers, with evergreen or deciduous foliage and inconspicuous flowers. The genus was more extended in the tertiary and many species have adapted to laurel forest<\/a> habitat. Ilex is adapted from sea level to more than 2000 meters with high mountain species. Ilex are dioecious<\/a> and have smooth, glabrous, or pubescent branchlets. The plants are generally slow-growing but over time can reach more than 10 m. The genus name is derived from the Latin (Acer<\/em> = acute<\/em> & folium<\/em> = leaf<\/em>). Many are evergreen<\/a> tree<\/a> with some species growing to 25 m tall. Type species is mediterranean Ilex aquifolium<\/a> described by Linnaeus<\/p>\n

Originally the name of “ilex” was that of the european species (Ilex aquifolium<\/a><\/em> ), many representatives of the genus Ilex were also called by the common name Holly<\/em> because of the obvious resemblance. In Roman times, the Roman people in Latin language originally designated as Ilex<\/em> the evergreen oak<\/a><\/em>, named today scientifically (Quercus ilex<\/a><\/em>). The leaves of the Holly actually recall those of the oak.<\/p>\n

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!<\/p>\n

Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your blog, and how your work relates to the other responses.<\/p>\n

The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group<\/a>, which you can join to post your responses. Are you already a member? I created that spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses. Please join and look at all of the great artwork that people have posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heigh Ho, The Holly Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh ho, sing heigh ho, unto the green holly; most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh ho, the holly! … Continue reading “Creative Prompt #136: Holly”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[400],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-11427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}