May 14, 2013 -- more buttercups

I headed outside to pick violas and dock today, but I encountered these buttercups along the way and couldn't resist them. Is there anything prettier? I associate buttercups with Mother's Day not only because they are always blooming then but also because they were one of my mother's favorite flowers. We actually moved some out of a field into a garden one year.

May 12, 2013 -- nandina remnants

As soon as I got home from traveling, I launched into doing flowers for a wedding. My shed was filled with flowers for three days as a friend and I worked on wedding arrangements, and we had enough flowers left over to do thousands of windowsill arrangements. But I'd sort of had my fill of flashy flowers by the time it was all over, and the only things I didn't want to throw away were these three remnant stalks of nandina. I'd stripped them of most of their foliage (to use elsewhere), but I still loved these naked, almost leafless stems. Love their dark brown color, knobby-ness, and oriental look.

May 11, 2013 -- many windows and a windshield

I've been dutifully making my windowsill arrangements, even while out of town, but I haven't been posting them. Here are a few:

This is a wonderful adobe windowsill in Santa Fe. The weeds (sage and wild mustard seed structures) are in a coffee mug. I jammed a little foil bag of coffee grounds into the mug with the weeds to make them stand up.

Here's the same window viewed from indoors.

Below is a bathroom window, also in Santa Fe. I've always wanted to arrange something in one of these glass block windows, but the day I had one, I had nothing to arrange with. Hence, the apple. 

And this is the "windowsill" of my car. I grabbed an orchid off a banquet table for this "arrangement." 

(Actually, I asked permission of the ladies who had done the orchid arrangements before appropriating one near my plate.) 

May 6, 2013 -- windowsill in Abiquiui

These flowers are artificial. In fact even the water in the glass vase is artificial-- some sort of acrylic material. But the beautiful light coming through this window at the Abiquiui Inn was real, and I couldn't resist moving this found arrangement into it. The calla lilies are appropriate, because Georgia O'Keefe's home is in Abiquiui, New Mexico (and O'Keefe, of course, painted lots of calla lilies and irises).

May 4, 2013 -- it had to be an iris

Staying at the Abiquiu Inn, near Georgia O'Keefe's home, the flower in the windowsill had to be an iris, which the Inn owners had conveniently provided in nearby gardens.

May 3, 2013 -- in Santa Fe

This little vase of ranunculus and daisies was on the breakfast table this morning at a B&B in Santa Fe. I moved it to a nearby windowsill where it was nearly impossible to photograph. Gotta arrange something in an adobe windowsill before I leave New Mexico!

April 31, 2013 -- a handful of buttercups

Gathered these buttercups as I walked yesterday. Nothing prettier. And it seems my window likes butter, because the flowers are reflected in the glass!

I tied an onion around this glass vase just to make it less floristy-looking.