The sun streams in our windows so early, I've been waking at 5:15 most mornings. Our guests arrive a week from today. So much to do!I did take a moment to walk outside and clip some of our last spring flowers: the aging lilacs which barely bloom and the daffodils which peaked too soon. I could have worked in the yard for hours and not noticing the passing of a single minute.
The individual cuttings looked scraggly at first, but combined in a thrift store container, make a sweet-smelling basket for a friend. Don't you just love springtime?
Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. --2 Corinthians 5:17
7 comments:
Those flowers are beautiful!
What a beautiful gift! You are so talented, Meredith!
Hi Meredith,
I have been following your blog since the Dollar Stretcher article that you wrote. I just want to say that you are extremely creative. I love all your ideas and admire your thriftiness. Have you ever arranged flowers professionally? If not, you should look into that someday as a possible home-based business.
Nancy, AL
I recognize that! It is sitting on my desk right now and I am so enjoying it. :) It was really fun meeting you although I'm sorry my little was such a stinker! :) Of course, she dozed off as soon as I got her in the car. :)
LOL I had to laugh when you said these were the *last* of your spring flowers. My first few bulbs are just peeking their new growth out of the soil. I've been counting them every day this week and there still aren't even a dozen and none are more than 2" high.....
AnnMarie, I guess I really meant "the early spring flowers." Here the star magnolia and forsythia are dying down, the daffodils bloomed too early due to a warm February, and our lilac and redbud tree were too old and diseased to put out many flowers.
Luckily I planted a ton of tulips which are just now poking their heads out, and there are signs of life in the perennial bed by the mailbox. Just not for a while yet...
Stephanie, I had to bring you a token of thanks for passing along all those darling little newborn outfits! Had so much fun sorting through them when I got home. Hard to believe I'll be holding something that tiny in a couple more months : )
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