Depuis quelques jours je pensais que je crochetais des bulles. Mais hier, j’ai vraiment regardé l’écharpe qui s’enroulait sur mes genoux, et je me suis rendue compte à quoi elle me faisait penser. Le fucus vésiculeux que je trouvais sur les rives de la Baltique quand j’y jouais enfant, pendant des étés qui duraient une éternité. On le trouvait flottant dans l’eau, ou remonté sur la plage ou la roche par le vent, et on s’amusait á faire exploser les petites bulles remplies d’air d’entre nos doigts.
These past few days, I thought I was crocheting bubbles. But yesterday I took a long hard look on the scarf curling up on my knees, and I realized what it really made me think of. The bladder wrack that I found on the shores of the Baltic sea when I played there as a child, during summers that lasted forever. We found it floating on the water or thrown onto the beach or the rocks by waves and wind, and we had a lot of fun pressing the little bubbles filled with air between our fingers to make them burst.
Ce n’est peut-être pas la plus belle des algues, mais pour moi c’est un concentré de souvenirs heureux. Une seule question démeure: Est-ce que « Fucus » est trop vilain comme nom d’un modèle? Qu’en pensez-vous?
There may be more beautiful seaweeds, but to me this one concentrates many happy memories. Now I only have one question: Is « Fucus » a bad name for a design? What do you think?
I don’t know Latin or French. English is my first language and I know a little Spanish (can pronounce Italian, from my singing history, but that is not the same as understanding).
Fucus does not have a good sound in English, if you ask me. If you are lucky it sounds like Ficus, a common houseplant here (must be Latin). If unlucky, it sounds like mucus which is not a lovely thing.
Could you call it seaweed? Or water plant? Something that describes, rather than an exact name?
LynnH in forever-snowing Michigan, USA