Flowers and Books - What Else Could you Want?

Spring, finally, is exploding all around us, and indoors simple flower arrangements that show off the perfection of each bloom are a welcome rest all that's happening in the gardening.

So this week I carried back to Seattle from my Langley garden only a couple of Allium 'Purple Sensation', and a single, beautiful, sweetly fragrant blossom from an orange Exbury azalea. I cut the stems short and stuck each in its own little vase, and arranged them along with a couple of luminous Glassy Baby candles down the center of the dining room table. With bookshelves as the backdrop to the flowers, I remembered a saying my father-in-law sent me recently, which sums up the delicious simplicity of focusing on what you love best:

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." A soothing idea to remember in this season of intense garden work and a multiplicity of plant possibilities....

Comments

[Denise]

Not a thing more. What a wise father-in-law!