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THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR
July 09, 2017
Unlike most cutting room floors, the Floating Petals Cutting Room Floor is not filled with rejected photos scattered on the ground or of flower stems that have been cut only to be swept up and thrown away. Instead, it's filled with varying perspectives of lovely flowers from bud to bloom that are captured in my lens. The weekend addition, the Cutting Room Floor, has developed organically from my s...
Read MoreFRIDAY’S FLOWER FACT: DOUBLE CLICK COSMOS
July 07, 2017
Harvest cosmos when petals on the first flower are just opening but not yet flattened for longest vase life. To learn more about this flower and download it for your desktop, join me on this journey of the discovery and delight of the 400,000+ flowers that petal our world.
Read MoreFLOWER QUOTE: LAUGHTER IS THE FIREWORKS
July 03, 2017
Happy Independence Day! MY TWO CENTS Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.… What would life be without laughter? It sparks such joy and connection with family and friends. It creates a bond when laughter is shared just as there is that experience of watching fireworks with others. There is beauty and something very awe-inspiring in both laughter and fireworks. Maybe it’s the innocence tha...
Read MoreNO WEEDING REQUIRED
July 02, 2017
I love my perennial and cutting gardens in Vermont. There is always something to be planning all year round. I get the chance to peruse the flowers and seeds at the local garden centers and catalogs, plan each garden, play in the dirt, and watch a living painting emerge in our backyard, giving me joy all spring, summer and fall. Yet another lesson flowers have to teach me: to let go and let it ha...
Read MoreFRIDAY’S FLOWER FACT: COL. CANDELOT IRIS
June 30, 2017
Iris is the Greek Goddess of the rainbow, and because of its elegance it has been a royal symbol throughout history. The famous "Fleur-de-Lis" is a graphic representation of the flower. To learn more about this flower and download it for your desktop, join me on this journey of the discovery and delight of the 400,000+ flowers that petal our world.
Read MoreFLOWER QUOTE: WEEDS ARE FLOWERS TOO
June 26, 2017
If I was given a multiple choice question with four different options, I think I would have been able to guess who wrote this quote as it has the perspective of none other than Winnie the Pooh. MY TWO CENTS Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them… If we only took the time to get to know what or who we thought were weeds, we would have a lot more flowers to surround us and a much mor...
Read MoreMARTHA STEWART’S GARDEN IN THE BERKSHIRES
June 25, 2017
If you didn’t already know from my website, my passion is photographing flowers and sharing their beauty and the lessons they have to teach us. I find the flowers I photograph in my garden and cutting garden, along the road and in meadows, and in friends’ gardens. I also plan special trips to visit the many beautiful botanical gardens and arboretums all over the country and abroad. One of m...
Read MoreFRIDAY’S FLOWER FACT: ORANGE STAR
June 23, 2017
This flower’s common name is Orange Star and its Latin name is Ornithogalum dubium. The term dubium means "dubious" or "unlike" others of the genus. To learn more about this flower and download it for your desktop, join me on this journey of the discovery and delight of the 400,000+ flowers that petal our world.
Read MoreFLOWER QUOTE: IT IS NOT JOY THAT MAKES US GRATEFUL
June 19, 2017
MY TWO CENTS It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful… Happiness should not depend on what has happened but on taking in every moment and being grateful. I rephrased that last sentence from Brother David Steindl-Rast words. Recently, I have been writing down everyday to remind myself to find joyful moments, but after reading his quote and hearing his TED talk, ...
Read MoreWOMEN ON THE GO! GO! GO!
June 18, 2017
I have often thought of the woman who works in the offices I described in my last blog post, and the woman whose office is her car, as she runs every which way to take care of all of the people in her world. For me, these women represent women on the Go! Go! Go!; caring for kids, a parent, friend, lover, someone in need, or log-jammed in a demanding job. But she is also that searcher, that seeker ...
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