Adrienne Ardito's Three Lemons More than Meets the Eyes

Adrienne Shows Few Words But Implies A Lot: Painting, Calligraphy, Etymology & Taxonomy


Adrienne Ardito "Three Lemons"



If you paid attention to Adrienne Ardito's  piece Three Lemons at Kalligraphia 13  it doesn't only show calligraphy but also painting, etymology of the word of lemon plus  Taxonomy. 

Taxonomy is a way of classifying living things into an organized fashion.
Botanically, from the Order Sapindales , lemons belong the Rutaceae family, Genus Citrus, and species limon. Adrienne impressed  me artistically and scientifically. A human being is known as Homo sapiens, the lemon is Citrus limon.

Her lettering  is few:  says a little but implies a lot. Her lemons have a vintage look from pages of the old world. Those three lemons are worthy of  your attention.

Did you know the word lemon originated from the Persian(Iranian) word laymun?
According to the  Dictionary online:
Origin of lemon:
1350–1400; 1905–10 for def. 4;  < Medieval Latin lemonium;  replacing Middle English lymon  < Medieval Latin limo,  (stem limon- ) < Persian limu, limun ;
C14: from Medieval Latin lemon-,  from  Arabic laymun ] 

A Poem About Lemons

As slang , a 'lemon' is defined as " a person or thing considered to be useless or defective".What do you do when you encounter a 'lemon'? You make a lemonade out of those lemons. Turn a negative situation into a positive.

Do you write poems in your journals? Sharing a lemony poem from a journal:

 A Basket of Lemons

A basket of lemons
  side by side with
        oranges, pears & cherries,
 & grapes, apples.
       
 My mouth
  remembers yours
 when you ate the
  oranges,pears & cherries
               &  grapes, apples.

 Sweet first, tangy in the middle
         in later years---
  Sour as the lemons
   in the basket.

       author: Elizabeth Nisperos

Lemonade Recipe

It's summertime. It's a-la-hot-hot-hot. Time for a lemonade. In the past, summertime is when kids make a lemonade stand to raise funds for pocket money or a good cause. Gone are those days with all the malls clustering around your areas.

Lets check out for Best Lemonade Recipe. My favorite is still the vintage lemonade recipe.
See a video how to make lemonades.