If you’re going to be spending some time at the beach, it’s always nice to add a few simple blooms to your house to cozy up the space.  A blossom or two in a simple container brings the outdoors inside and can add a gentle fragrance that will always remind you of this special vacation time.  And isn’t that what we remember first and most fondly – those little moments of perfect happiness when the blue delphinium fluttered in a […]

One of my favorite summer activities as a kid was making flower crowns out of wild flowers. I would pick daisies and sweet peas that grew in the apple orchard behind the barn, and braid them together into long chains, which I fastened into wreaths with a piece of grape-tying wire from the barn. The barn was fascinating too – old millstones, dusty steamer trunks from when my grandparents came to America, rusty tools, and always the aroma of homemade […]