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The Stock Market, container imported from the Orient. Delphinium blue chips up. Yellow yarrow rising and setting. The pink lilies, traders on the stock market floor shouting buy, sell. Purple carnations, the stock holders. And hypericum berries going up, going down. Here in the U.S. its part has just begun.
This purple arrangement is not about the Raven’s football team. It’s about a family team, some carns who stayed out late last night and needed to be tucked in, some roses who always stick their necks out, put them on the line. It’s about liatris who are straight as arrows. Statice, not sure if it’s […]
A lovely afternoon of tea with pressed glass and china. In honor of friendship, we talked of Barack Obama’s inauguration, how to brave the cold, how to get there. Then there were Oprah and her crises, our children, the average loss of worth, then back to the beauty around us. Yes, our friendship elevated, […]
A picture of geese on a creek of the Miles River was disturbed by the camera. The birds suddenly took flight and collided with a passenger airplane over the Hudson River. Our formation took their formation each row led by the leader.
Patron, “May I please order a Hogarth Curve.” Florist, “Excuse me?” Well that depends on the generational thing and for the most part sex of the designer. Women who raised children at home and in their leisure spent hours practicing their flower arranging techniques would of course know how to do a Hogarth Curve. And […]
Big game on Sunday night football, the Baltimore Ravens against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Our Charm City has black and purple shirts, flags on cars and blow-up defensemen everywhere. We even died our eucalyptus here black. But how far can you go. The mayor of Pittsburgh changed his name for a week from Luke Ravenstahl to […]
A young life lost. What do you say. “I’m sorry.” On the card perhaps, “Our Deepest Sympathy.” Flowers can express the beauty and condolences you extend to the family and friends. How stark the casket would be without them.
The flu is running rampant. All one needs is just a spoon full of flowers to make the medicine go down – in the most delightful way.
Rest In Peace we almost said to this spider mum arrangement. But there was some stirring in the coffin. We watched before our eyes as the red dogwood twigs began to sprout. Little leaves came out of nowhere. So before the nails are hit on the head, we are going to investigate propogation as an […]
Can not attribute this thought as original but the winter garden shows your backbone, evergreens. And from there your spring, summer and fall appendages. In fact it is said to start with your backbone is to build that good-looking garden. The Historical Society of Talbot County Garden maintained by the Talbot County Garden Club
