I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace. . . .
― Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
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I found this china bowl on Saturday at the weekly Stuttgart flohmarkt (flea market). It has a transferware pattern and two stripes of orange lusterware glaze. The mark on the bottom says “made in USSR.” It cost me €7, and I am very pleased with myself about it.
I added two little pots of forced miniature daffodils from the grocery store.
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Orange tulips on the mantelpiece after a week alone in the house, while we were off traveling. I love the way cut tulips change as they fade.
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Cut amaryllis flowers from the grocery store and nice orange berries from the ugly euonymus in the front yard.
I like orange and pink at Christmas.
The amaryllis started out long-stemmed — although not so long as these — but I cut them down as they started to fade a little after a week.
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“Barefoot woman inspecting her garden, ‘Aunt Lee’,” ca. 1904 – ca. 1918, location and photographer unknown, via simpleinsomnia on flickr (under CC license).
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