Blue DahliaMar 7
Elena Rossini ⁂

I’ve been looking for a 4-leaf clover my entire life. Actively looking whenever I’m in a garden… and never found one.

Until today.

In a countryside train station, before hopping on a train to Como with my family.

I told my child and she immediately found another. She was so proud: “It’s my first 4-leaf clover!” (I immortalized the moment with my phone - the photo shows her hand picking it).

I’ll be pressing them in a book later today. Such precious keepsakes 💚

#GoodLuckCharm

Mar 7 at 4:55pmWeb
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Mar 7
Pressing under way…
Show threadmags amondMar 7
@_elena maybe some light absorbent paper between the clover and the book page - keep the plant from sticking to those pages when you want to remove 🍀
Show threadMaho 🦝🍻Mar 7
@magsamond @_elena If this was me, I would think that is the perfect placement for a forever clover-home (or deathbed?).
Show threadshomMar 7
@_elena an era-appropriate book for a clover pressing. This whole story is cute and perfect!
Show threadDon RayMar 7

@_elena

This 99 year old song is part of pop culture (but I never knew all the words until I watched this video!).

This version is from 1948.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADmpR0PKp_I

I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover Lyrics

YouTube
Show threadSeth of the FediverseMar 7
@_elena Great choice of books to press with!
Show threadmags amondMar 7
@_elena 🍀
Show threadDajeLinux  Mar 7
@_elena You had to return to Italy for this 😉
Show threadFrançois @JuraMar 7
@_elena 🍀 what a nice story 💚
Show threadFranz GrafMar 7
@_elena Ahw, so nice
Show threadSeth of the FediverseMar 7
@_elena woot! Way to go!
Show threadgrepeMar 7
@_elena keep looking around the place where you found it. i found hundreds of these and in my experience they rarely grow solo - there is a good chance there is at least half a dozen within 2m radius around this one.
Show threadsahqonMar 7
@grepe @_elena Yeah, it's probably the same plant doing stuff funny. I found quite a few in my grandparents' garden, and none anywhere else. Though I haven't been looking much lately.
Show threadEricka SimoneMar 7
@_elena omg play the lotto if you have one. lol.
Show threadZeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶Mar 7
@_elena I used to think like you until I saw this in Japan. Then I got jealous of the Japanese. 😉
Show threadMichel PatriceMar 7

@_elena

Je me demande si on identifie le trèfle pour le laisser fleurir, est-ce que les graines donneront des trèfles à quatre feuilles?

Si j'en trouve un, j'essaye.

Ma pelouse est moitié trèfle, j'ai des chances...

Ou peut-être que ça briserait la magie du trèfle à quatre feuilles...

Show threadElena ``of Valhalla''Mar 7

@_elena the reason why you can't find any is because my aunt has found *all*of*them* first.

(really. she invests quite some effort in it, but she keeps finding them even in places where I've been multiple times without noticing them)

Show threadCreamofCryMar 7
@_elena I dated a woman once who had the incredible ability to find four leaf clovers. If there was clover, she could find a four leafer. Her mother also had this skill. All of her 4 sisters. Her grandmother. I was amazed. I've never found one on my own.
Show threadnotanowlMar 8
@_elena i have all my youngests pressed in an old garden book
Show threadsortius Mar 8

@_elena I've found tonnes. Even 5, 6, 7, etc, leaf up to 11.

The most I found was at a sports carnival at Hunter Valley Grammar. They had this sort of drainage ditch with clover growing in it. Apparently the conditions were right for finding more than 3 leaf clovers. We found so many

Show threadEpic NullMar 8
@_elena You ever think about how much more rare they are because we pick them?
Show threadSimonMar 8

@_elena

Outstanding 💪

Show threadDubs! 🌩️Mar 8
@_elena I didn’t find my first one until adulthood either, surprisingly at my childhood home. I still find them here occasionally and it’s still just as uplifting as the first time. 🍀
This is such a cool memory with your child!
Show threadhannes99Mar 24
@_elena as a child, I looked for a 4 leafer one for very long, but didn't find any. Until a found a single 5 leafer one 😅