Despite last night's dash of frost and a month to go until the equinox, we must surely be teetering on the cusp of springtime. Today may be 60 degrees and sunny...but didn't it snow last March...or was it early April??? We're right at that delicious point where the weather can go either way. This moment is seasonal change boiled down to its essence, slapping us in the face with its unpredictability....
Our weather limbo is captured in these two new bouquets I made today. The little arrangement is colorful springtime, the taller one silvery winter.
They both show off the benefits of scavenging....I picked up the magnolia branches with their furry buds when they were torn from a street tree in our Queen Anne neighborhood by an errant moving van, the transparent white pods of the money plant pods (Lunaria annua) were gathered growing wild along an alleyway here in Langley.
For the spring bouquet in the "carrot top" vase, I cut the twigs of purple-leafed flowering plum off a neighbor's tree that hangs over our Langley fence (fair game); the fragrant Daphne odora, crocus, tiny Tete-a-tete narcissus are from my garden.
When else could you create two arrangements so evocative of different seasons, on the same day? Only when we're on the cusp, with one muddy boot still mired in winter, our other boot feeling more firmly planted in springtime every day....
Love that beautiful little "orange top" vase. Enjoying the same glorious burst of sunshine here in Oregon while pruning the roses!
Posted by: Jan LaFollette | February 19, 2010 at 08:16 AM