Yesterday was all about
Salome. One of my favorite Salomes is the lusty stepmother-witch in the musical
The Robber Bridegroom, based on
Eudora Welty's novella set in the
Natchez Trace territory. This Salome conspires to kill her stepdaughter so she can have a handsome young suitor for herself. Her name is pronounced to slant rhyme with baloney.
Welty's tale calls on various fairy tale versions but also the
Cupid/Psyche myth and the real adventures of an awful bandit of the Trace, Little Harp.
And a character in the musical is Big Harp, Little Harp's bandit brother, who is a disarticulated head carried around in a suitcase!
Salome sings a song comparing Rosa-mund, the step-daughter, to a lilybud and herself to the "prickle pear bloom." Thanks to
Stan Shebs for this prickly pear (
opuntia, a cactus) in bloom.
And, speaking of Rosamund, my trellis roses are beginning to pop!
Happy Friday the 13th!
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