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What's this? Another blog post only a day later? Practicing using my words after speaking in flowers for so long. Pretty rusty on the typing and speaking bit and could certainly use the practice. Why not do it here where I imagine no one will see it. Anyone who does is certainly looking for it, there are not many places to find me writing even though it's something I feel I can be pretty good at. I think the problem is that anything I feel good at immediately falls prey to my perfectionism and overthinking. I'm going to try letting that go and practice it here. Not sure how long I'll keep it up as a daily practice but here...

Things are looking pretty bleak right now. Not that they haven't for awhile now but it suddenly feels like the unraveling of society at large has leapt into hyperdrive. Seems like there are so many horrible things happening I can't  even put words to my thoughts and feelings about it all. Makes doing a small thing like making pretty flower arrangements seem silly and inconsequential. You know, like that saying about rearranging the patio furniture on the titanic? I am trying to remind myself of the power that comes from finding beauty in everyday things; finding beauty in unexpected places where maybe nobody else would think to look. The hope that can be found in alchemizing the flowers and textures...

I hope you've been cutting flowers from your garden! If you have you're likely seeing second and third rounds of roses, cosmos, even foxgloves and delphinium. If you haven't things may be tipping over and going to seed and that's great too! A yard that's a bit wild and messy is a treat for birds and pollinators and the flowers are doing the work of seeding next years flowers for you. I'm a big advocate of low maintenance gardening; if you don't get to the pre-emptive deadheading of cutting flowers in their prime, go ahead and leave them. Gardening is supposed to be an enjoyable pastime not yet another mile long to-do list;go easy on yourself! So many people I...

My goodness, where does the time go? Trying really hard to be kind to myself for not having been here since April. And when I was I barely typed one line. I really thought that posting once a month would be feasible.I'm pretty accustomed to all of May disappearing but I feel like so much time has passed in a blur this year. I thought maybe if I just slowed down enough to write about what was blooming and showing up in my arrangements each month it would be a way to mark the time. Then we got into wedding season and now there's so many things blooming and so many different things going into my arrangements I don't even...

The year round cutting garden.... Hopefully the third times the charm; I've tried typing this up and posting it and it keeps disappearing (???)so, here we go, again (at least for me) I am often asked what I would plant if I wanted to ALWAYS have something lovely to cut. Mind you, I am not a gardener but, I am eternally grateful to those who are; whether it's professionally or as a pastime. Without them I would have so much less available to me as plants and flowers are both my medium and my muse. I'm blessed to live in the Pacific Northwest where we have small flower farms popping up all over and some lovely friends that let me...