Wednesday, April 17

April Botanical Gifts

I was blessed yesterday with a surprise visit from my mother and father, and they came bearing spring gifts! I thought you'd like to see some of the pretty things they brought. The arrangements were made by my multi-talented mother.

It's spring in Maine but we still don't have any bright colors of which to speak. Other than the blue sky and sea, our world right now is a pallet of muddy shades of brown and grey. So all these cheerful gifts brighten up our house and our spirits while we wait for nature to burst into color.

An arrangement of pansies, violas and pussy-willow branches.


The first pansy of 2019
An arrangement of silk flowers and pussy-willow branches

A large grape-vine wreath adorned with silk flowers, pussy-willows and a robin's egg blue bow


A bouquet of pussy-willows cut from Mom and Dad's pussy-willow tree.

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