I need a hug

Photogenic. Expressive. Edible. Interesting. Beautiful. Weird. What’s not to love about fiddleheads?

two ostrich fern fiddlehead fronds

I can’t get enough

I can NOT get enough of the apple blossoms this year. Wowsa.

These dark-pink blossoms with the star-shaped white markings are new-to-me. I really like them.

ferns unfurl like scrolls

I was home just long enough to catch the fiddleheads before they were all knee-high and mostly unfurled. Amen for small victories. I would have been very sad had I messed my favorite micro-season of all. Note to self: Don’t travel in May if you don’t have to. Sixty-one years old and still learning.

fiddlehead ostrich ferns

here there and everywhere

Yesterday I was in Florida. Today I am at home. Tomorrow I go to Denver. I am just swinging by here.

P.S. I was in Florida to do a corporate speaking/workshop event. In Denver, I am giving a talk at a trade show where a a collection of STILL wallpapers will be introduced.

nature’s confetti

When you are reading this I will be flying back from doing a workshop for a corporate client in Florida. When I do these workshops I often bring a bag or two of dried botanicals with me for the workshop participants to play with while I talk. By the end of the workshop, this confetti is often all that will be left behind. But even that is gorgeous. Nature does it best.

crushed dried botanical bits