Friday, June 25, 2010

Friday flowers, welcome home edition

The laundry is not done, forcing me to wear gym clothes to work this week. The apartment is a mild to moderate disaster. There is still minimal food in the house.

But there are flowers.

peonies, etc
{peonies, etc}

Big, crumpled petal peonies. Blowsier and more show offy than garden roses, which is a bit of a feat. If they were around all year, I don't think I could handle them. But a bit of over the top exuberance is perfect, in its own season.

peonies, crumpled
{peonies, crumpled}

There is one more Greece recap for next week and then more regular posting will resume. Possibly even posts with actual recipes and photographs and everything.

21 comments:

  1. I don't know, I really like drooling over photos of your amazing vacation..."real posting" be damned!

    Gorgeous peonies, by the way. I might pick up a bouquet of something myself, to cure the I'm-not-on-vacation blues.

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  2. Flowers make everything better - don't they? These are lovely.

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  3. i'm so impressed. even though you might not have unpacked entirely, the flowers i'm sure are making a big difference.

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  4. what else does a person need when there our flowers? :)

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  5. i don't want the recaps to end!

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  6. beautiful as always - get so many ideas for new flowers!

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  7. these are gorgeous -- love the flecks of pink!

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  8. oh yes, the settling home is always a bit of adjustment - especially after such a beautiful vacation.

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  9. I feel the same way about peonies... a perfectly welcome seasonal showiness!! Hope the weekend sees you with a pantry full of food and a closet full of clean clothes. And lots of rest and fun too!

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  10. I'm really curious about that very interesting looking statue in the first photo. It looks like the main character from A Nightmare Before Christmas, but with a top hat and walking stick.

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  11. @ stephanie - He does look a lot like a Tim Burton character, but he's a day of the dead paper mache figure from Mexico. I should probably share him with you guys at some point, because he's one of our favorite things.

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  12. Flowers are like a made bed. They somehow make the mess not so intolerable:)

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  13. Lovely! I know the feeling. Little things like flowers go a long way. :)

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  14. lovely - very soothing i am sure amid the chaos of unpacking!

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  15. "but there are flowers" i love that!

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  16. peonies. sometimes that's all you need.

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  17. Ooh, and this is the perfect vase for them! I couldn't find the one that looked Just Right when I bought my bunch of peonies a few weeks ago -- this slimness (but still wide enough for the thick stalks) are perfect!

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  18. Ooh very pretty peonies, I love their ruffles. It sounds like you had a great time in Greece, clearly a place very close to your heart which makes reading your posts so great!

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  19. I also need to get a move-on on the laundry... thankfully I have a large wardrobe. Those flowers are also very beautiful and elegant.

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  20. I love peonies. I need to find some around here.

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