Friday, May 16, 2008

A flower day...

It began on Mother's Day. Daughter and family gave me a gift certificate to a local greenhouse/nursery.

Today, being +24C, it was the day to purchase my flowers.

It was a feast for the eyes after a very long, cold winter. Color everywhere. I couldn't decide.

OK. One bright orange begonia....one angelic white one...one soft peach one...and a vivid red one.

Some delicately light pink cascading petunias.

A few of those tiny flowered plants than hang nicely out of the pots but also spread out in all directions for good ground cover.......in lilac and purple and pink.

Several hanging lobelia (or however you spell it). I like how they look, I just don't know much about them nor how to spell their names.

Many bags of potting soil.

Went home. Potted the flowers. Had a bottle of beer....so good after working hard.

It was a most lovely gift certificate.......to enjoy the entire summer. I am very grateful!

With a fitting end to this day, I watched "Lilies of the Field" on TCM.

Then I read in Luke 12:27 where it talks about flowers:

"Has anyone by fussing before the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? If fussing can't even do that, why fuss at all? Walk into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They don't fuss with their appearance—but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them. If God gives such attention to the wildflowers, most of them never even seen, don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you?" The Message

God makes good things......


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