big arrangement

This shouldn't even qualify as a windowsill arrangement--it's too big--but I hadn't posted for a couple of days and had to prove I hadn't been sitting on my hands! Actually, I've even done half a dozen little things in the windowsill but have had no time to photograph or post them. This is something I did for an entirely different purpose, but it fit on the windowsill... so... here it is.

Mary Louise's windowsill

I was the lucky guest of Mary Louise Hagler, in Augusta, Georgia, this week, and, when I arrived, this was an arrangement on her windowsill. So, so sweet (and in a hand-me-down container that had belonged to her mother-in-law). Not a bad way to be memorialized---with flowers in a vase that once belonged to you. The arrangement is beautiful, but it was the shadows (real and metaphorical) that thrilled me about this.

hairy bittercress & speedwell

Pulled two perfect clumps of speedwell and hairy bittercress (both weeds) out of the garden yesterday, but they were too fat and happy to throw away. Brought them inside and "planted" them in this little dish, which had an arum leaf already in it. Then decided to elevate the whole thing on a black pin cup. Why? Not sure. It just looks more interesting, and more contemporary, to me.

daffodils in upended vase

This vase is supposed to be used horizontally, but today I decided to use it sort of like a shadow box. The daffodils, aucuba foliage, and spent iris stem are in a small pin cup (which holds water). Love the colors of all this, and the fact that it includes fresh and dead things. Reminds me of some painter's palette & subject matter--Goya?

daffodils with rusty stove burner

Months ago, Mary Garner-Mitchell found this rusty stove burner in an old trash heap at Flower Camp, and I couldn't throw it away. Today it bubbled back up into my life, and I propped it up in the windowsill where it drew this little bunch of daffodils to it. Under the container holding the daffodils (an square pin cup) is another piece of rusted metal Mary discovered.

yesterday's daffodils--in my own shadow

I decided to re-arrange yesterday's daffodils in a different vase, and when I went to photograph the result it required a different windowsill, and in that different windowsill, in different light, I was fighting my own shadow, but then I decided to keep moving my head until I liked where its shadow landed around the daffodils! Real photographers must do this all the time, but this was a revelation for me.

At last--'February Gold' daffodils in March!

Here they are, at last, the February Gold daffodils blooming in mid-March. I gathered this bunch up in my hand this afternoon and then nestled them into an arum leaf, like a bouquet. Didn't want to separate the bunch or just drop them into an ordinary vase, so I put them in this little, low, ceramic "tray" instead. The daffodil stems are in water. The curving arum leaf stem is not.