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Spring splashes vivid hues
By Jim Hood
Spring. It calls up a host of
wonderful associations. It re
members that it can be warm
enough to lounge peacefully
under a tree. It brings back the
smells, the colors, the wind and
the sun. Spring means many
things for many people. It will
also pass by quickly if one
doesn't take the time to watch.
Jonquils and daffodils, in
their vast hybridized array of
color and size, are easily noticed
pointing their strap leaves up
toward the sun from their
garden plots. The earlier crocus
is another gardener's favorite.
It comes in many shades
purple, striped, yellow, white,
to name a few. Later on the
Join Journey
Tonight, Wednesday April
11, "What A Difference You
Made In My Life," a drama
group from Fayetteville, will
give a dramatic interpretation
through dance about the contri
bution of black women to his
tory at 7 p.m. today in Stern
berger Auditorium. Admission
is free.
A tribute to George G.M.
James, "They Called Him
Champion," will be presented
at 8 p.m. Thursday (April 12) in
the Boren Lounge of Founders
Hall by Dr. Yosef A.A. Ben
Jochannon, professor at Cornell
University. Admission is free.
The Journey VII banquet will
take place at 7 p.m. Friday
(April 13) at the Star Club in
Greensboro.
A fashion show by the Umoja-
Wa-Kuumba Modeling Co. of
New York City will be held in
the Commons Room of Found
ers Hall at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
(April 14) Admission is free.
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dogwood [Cornus] buds are
swelling and the edge of the
woods begins to take on a wispy
white replacing the smoky red
the maples [Acer rubrum] gave
it earlier.
The careful observer can find
a great deal more if willing to
look. In this part of the country
the true botanical heralds of
spring are minute flowers which
show themselves in the middle
of the back yard, hidden by a
cover of lawn. Veronica persica
has bright blue petals with
stripes a gorgeous flower all
of 1 cm across. It keeps a low
profile rummaging around
amongst the grasses.
The familiar chickweek, Stel
laria, has 5 white petals split
Singer-poet Gil Scott-Heron,
a gospel song "feast," a disco,
a fashion show and a dramatic
interpretation in dance will be
featured during the coming
week in Journey VII ("Behold
Our Beauty") Into Blackness at
Cuilford College.
Sponsored by Brothers and
Sisters in Blackness (BASIB),
the annual "journey" started at
8 p.m. Sunday (April 8) with a
gospel song "feast" featuring
the debut of the Cuilford Col
lege Gospel Ensemble in Stern
berger Auditorium.
Special guests were Brother
Mac and the C.H. Brown Fel
lowship Choir of the New Light
Baptist Church and the A&T
State University Fellowship
Gospel Choir.
Productions of Philadelphia will
begin at 11 p.m. Saturday (April
14) in Sternberger Auditorium
and will last until 3 a.m.
Admission is 50 cents per
person for non-Guilford College
students.
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down the middle giving the
effect of 10, but the petals are
less than 10 mm long. Stellaria
makes an interesting salad
green (by the way).
Another early weed, Carda
mine hirsuta, bitter cress, is
hard to spot but has a lovely set
of basal leaves and very small
white petals (2-3 mm).
In the backyard the more
familiar flowers include the wild
violets. Viola papilionacea is
easily recognized by its purple
(or white with purple stripes)
flower. The heart-shaped leaves
give a lush green to winter
wrecked lawns and roadsides v
Moving into the woods from
the backyard a whole new array
of spring flowers come into view
-- not immediately, though; one
needs to do a little searching.
The bloodroot [Sanguinaria
canadensis], so-named because
the Indians used it for painting
their faces and dyeing, presses
a lone white flower and leaf out
from under the autumn's cover
ing of leaves. The petals come
in sets of 8 to 12 per flower,
each petal 1.5-3 cm long.
The liverleaf [Hepatica amer
icana] is a secretive plant. It
often grows on slopes near
streams spreading its three
Nydorf exhibition open
Recent works by Roy Nydorf,
assistant professor of art at
Guilford College, will be exhibi
ted April 8-30 in the Founders
Hall Gallery, where a reception
will be held for the artist from 3
to 5 p.m. on opening day. The
public is invited.
Paintings, drawings and
prints will be included in the
exhibition.
A native of Port Washington,
N.Y., Nydorf joined the art
department at Guilford in 1978
after receiving his M.F.A. from
Yale University and teaching a
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lobed leaves and bluish sepals
(that only look like petals) out
over the leaves. A good-sized
liverleaf would cover as much
ground as the palm of one's
hand.
Erythronium americanum,
known as the trout lily or
dog-toothed violet, is another
streamside dweller. Its yellow
flowers are fairly conspicuous
and the mottled leaves are an
interesting contrast to other
members of the lily family.
Some of the most inconspi
cuous spring blooms occur on
the most conspicuous plants.
The various oaks [Quercus] are
just getting ready to open up
their tiny blooms. The oaks are
monoecius which means they
have different male and female
flowers occuring on the same
plant. The female flowers have
pistils and the male ones have
stamens. Male flowers are clus
tered on a drooping catkins and
later on these catkins will be
seen all over the ground looking
year at the University of New
Haven.
One of his paintings was
selected for the 41st annual
North Carolina Artists Exhibi
tion currently under way at the
state museum of art in Raleigh.
Less than 90 works were accep
ted from the approximately
1,600 submitted.
In the past 12 months, alone,
his works have been shown by
the Watercolor Society of North
Carolina, National Print Exhibi
tion, Springfest '7B, Temple
University and the 46th annual
Southeastern Competition
April 11. H7
like young, thin hairy worms.
Of course the showy part of
spring, the dogwoods, redbuds,
camellias, azaleas and garden
flowers, cannot be underesti
mated for their contribution to
the real splash of color which
washes across the country. Ap
preciate it all while it's here
the color comes and goes quick
ly. As Robert Frost said: "No
thing gold can stay."
Reference: A.E. Radford,
A.E. Ahles, C.R. Bell. Manual
of the Vascular Flora of the
Carolinas. (Chapel Hill: Univer
sity of North Carolina Press,
1964).
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