Reading Gardening Nirvana’s post Celebrating the Gardeners of In a Vase on Monday reminded me of a post I was going to write this summer but I forgot about.
Things have been mighty strange, sad and stressful here in “America-land” and this summer I decided to combat the ugliness I would see in the news (when I could bear to check it) with BEAUTY.
I decided to try to always have a bouquet of flowers on our kitchen table. I’ve continued the habit into the Autumn and plan to take this practice through the Winter and beyond.
I started with pulling flowers this summer from my garden and putting them on the upstairs patio table:
By the way here are our last roses of the season in our rose garden in the front of the house (I had some of them in a bouquet but didn’t photograph it):
Then I moved to purchased flowers each week (or every other week if the bouquet was especially hardy) and here are some of those bouquets:
The bouquets really make my kitchen table happy and add some happiness to our lives!
I’ll close this post with a beautiful bouquet of flowers I stumbled upon while we were in NYC in October 2025 (see posts Time in Times Square and West Village Wander, the Tiniest Yarn Shop and More) at this wonderful Japanese tea/coffee shop we stop at in Manhattan:
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