The Flower Farm

For Mother's Day this year, I received a gift to look forward to -

and three months later - here we are at Five Acres Flower Farm 

It was a perfect summer evening and ladies from all over 

came out for this workshop ...

dressed for a special occasion. 

No memo on that ... but somehow the feeling was in the air. 

The owner gave us a tour of her fields, showed us how to cut stems

and then let us go cut as many flowers as we liked.

The dahlia fields were at their prime, but there were many other 

flowers! I had forgotten the wonderful scent of sweet peas!

We were shown how to incorporate eucalyptus and scented herbs as fillers.

Really, it could not go wrong. 

We took our buckets to the tables where vases were waiting to be filled.

As the sun set, the lights shone brighter,

and I could have just gone around taking pictures.

These sweet young women and the one in Indonesia

are such a blessing to me!

To love and be loved is the greatest gift!