Flower Hunt

Where oh where can I find either jasmine or stephanotis without going to a florist and paying a fortune?
I want to make my own bouquets and centerpieces, but I’m having trouble finding a small, white, star-shaped flower to accent the green.  I’ve looked at the average Lowes and Home Depot for these types of flowers, [...]

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New Spring, New Garden

Mike and I decided that it was just too beautiful yesterday to sit around. We went to Lowes and bought some veggies for our garden, but we didn’t stop there. We saw a lot of people buying flowers. Lowes was so crowed with flower hungry people, that we could barely get down [...]

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Spring Is Here

The earth is starting to breath like a lover in rapture again. In the last few days I’ve been blessed with the sight of these few things:

Ducks. Pairs have been waddling around the courtyard, making their gruff little quacks. Soon the mallards will be harassing the females with their persistent wooing.
Wild [...]

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Rainy Friday Wedding Planning

It’s gloomy and wet outside. I hate winter rain. I always said that if we’re going to get precipitation in winter, it might as well be snow. Snow at least is pretty and doesn’t soak you to the bone with cold. I only like rain when there’s a nice thunderstorm in [...]

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That’s For Thoughts

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies. That’s for thoughts,” Shakespeare’s Ophelia says, as she begins to go mad at the death of her father and the loneliness she feels as her lover (Hamlet) turns toward a selfish path to destroy his uncle. Flowers have meant something to humans [...]

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