Florists for a Day

It's Saturday morning and we've turned the kitchen into a floral shop to make the flower arrangements for Katiana's graduation party this evening. Jan's arrived bearing Starbucks coffee and our favorite scones for breakfast. It's another scorcher of a day and we're out harvesting roses before the serious heat kicks in. Jan dropped by our local farmers market to pick up pink larkspur and hydrangea, stawflowers, white and pink sweet peas, tiny mauve edged calla lilies, and greenery. A stunning combination with the roses. And so we spend the first half of the day, listening to music and happily playing florist with flowers strewn everywhere. (God bless Ramon who was the one man clean-up brigade.) Brent came over with the Surbuban and Jan, Ramon and I piled in to transport the finished centerpieces to the party destination--not an easy task to keep the vases from spilling on the drive down our hill and up our neighbor's steeper hill where the party was held. In total we made four large focal-point arrangements, five medium sized ones for individual tables, filled a dozen of Jan's tiny mini-vases full of rosebuds, sweet peas, and love-in-a mist, and completed some twelve nosegays to lay here and there on tables. Looked like we were staging a wedding--of course, I am of the opinion that all the big events we've done flowers for in the past several years are just practice sessions for our daughter's future weddings. A few more big parties and we ought to be real professionals by then!

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