What's blooming today?
by Tricia
I found an amazing video of flowers over at YouTube.com. It’s composed of a series of flower photos ranging from dahlia’s to clematis to a blown dandelion flower. Each segment is separated by a video effect that makes the photos flow into each other in different ways each time.
I think I might do something like this with my own photos- photos of all types actually. I’ve got a number of ideas that might work nicely.
Did you like that?
by Tricia
You know, I was just trying to decide how long I’ve been interested in gardening and I’ve decided that to some degree, I must have had an interest even as a young child. I can remember helping my parents in our home gardens and at the two gardens we had at our cottage. I might have complained a bit about it every now and then, but once I got working helping to pull the weeds or planting seeds and watching the new plants grow I discovered that I actually enjoyed what I was doing.
Chris and I have beautiful wedding bands, and even these I realize have a bit of a garden theme to them. Well my band does anyway.
We didn’t go the route of choosing wedding rings the way most couples do. Chris and I were both jewelers at the time – not sellers of jewelry but the people who actually make jewelry. It’s very bad luck for jewelers to make their own wedding bands, so as a gift, our brother in law who was also a jeweller, hand crafted our beautiful bands on his own as a gift to us.
We did have input into the design- thank goodness! Mine does have a garden theme it’s a concave gold band with hand carved grape vine and grape leaves intertwined around the whole band. Small emeralds and diamonds alternate around the band between the grape leaves. It’s beautiful. I wanted emeralds in my band because I felt they gave me a tie to nature.
Chris band is convex yellow gold with a strip of white platinum encircling the middle of the band. It’s very nice, but sorry no garden theme to his band.
Even though we didn’t choose our wedding bands the traditional way, we did have a traditional wedding. However, we did get a friend to do the flowers and decorations for the pews as she was working at a fantastic flower shop at the time.
Don’t you just love having connections?
by Tricia
An online friend was telling me about a Florist in Lake Arrowhead Ca that she uses every now and then.
I just thought that I’d pass on her recommendation to any of my readers that might be in the Rimforest California area. She told me that it’s a family run business with fast friendly service. She’s purchased some floral arrangements that she was very pleased with.
I’d actually like to go there to check out their pottery. I’m a pottery fanatic and I’m sure if we had a bigger house our home would be full of pottery. Plates, bowls and gorgeous ceramic pots are my favorites.