Carlisle Flowers

  This morning on the Today Show (NBC), Matt Lauer was interviewing President Barack Obama (at the White House?) and on the coffee table between them were roses.  The men discussing world affairs were in the backdrop, the roses to the fore.  That’s a nice arrangement.

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How wonderful light. Throw these carnations in with liatris and salal leaves and they do the arranging.

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The Year of the Ox. Didn’t have ox at the frigid outdoor farmer’s market today but the flower lady did have red tulips. So here we go.

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Officer, we promise you this was not premeditated. We had some left-over flowers and this urn that might have come down from my uncle’s side of the family. And we have a witness, my son, who was here in the house when we made the arrangement. I’m sure it will be paid for when we […]

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We have a pin cushion (orange), a swath of tropical green striped ginger, a nubby yellow yarrow, some mini carns for florals and the hem sewn by green berzelia. Are we talking Tommy Bahama or Jimmy Buffett.

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He delivered a rose. Actually a dozen of them. She was the employee of the month, a new thing to promote the morale in the cloth factory. At least that was the obvious reason she was so honored. But did the boss, Henry, who lorded over the plank floors really ignore her red wavy hair […]

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