Back in the closing decade of the last century -- which is to say in the 90s -- our young nieces used to visit for a week or two every summer. We called it Camp NoFun and it was meant to give us a chance to get to get to know each other better and to introduce the girls to country living -- baking bread, picking blackberries,gathering eggs, learning to sew -- all that good stuff. There was still lots of time to do other things like playing dressup in my old skirts . . .
...and the ever popular trick of dyeing Queen Anne's Lace by sticking the cut stems in a container of water and food coloring.
Of course, the flower is quite pretty in its natural state. But it's irresistible fun to watch osmosis at work.
It works within a few hours -- except when it doesn't. The stem I put in the red dye keeled over rather than osmose. So did its replacement.
