Now is the time
gerald
dried arrangements next year. On a mild winter day one can find the dried
flowers of last fall and the seed pods. Look for ragweed pods, purple
deadnettle, spotted
knapweeed, thistles, cat tails, and punks. The types to be found are numerous.
Even along side the road or in the lots next to strip malls one can find these
treasures. Cut the stems
long, you can recut for the arrangements latter. Better to long
than not long enough. Place them is secure cardboard boxes,
sealed from dust and store in a warm dry place.
Not only will you have material for next years displays but you will have the joy
of a mid-winter walk with nature.
--
Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately,
experience usually comes from bad judgment.
Kirby Cook
Thank you, Gerald, for an interesting interlude. I was just looking at
the Proceedings of the "First International Knapweed Symposium of the
21st Century", (in the immortal words of Dave Barry, "I am not making
this up") particularly the 62-page (!) "Bibliography of Spotted
Knapweed, Yellow Starthistle, and Other Weedy Knapweeds", and being
overcome with wonder at the varied and amazing things a worldfull of
people can find, and find time, to get up to. Not to mention (since you
already have) lovely art/artifact-gathering midwinter walks . I think I
owe you.
Kirby
Jerry
Jerry
Someday we will find it, the rainbow connection,
for the lovers, the dreamers and me.
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Big time.
Kirby Cook
Gerald, I received the pictures of dry floral arrangements you sent
me, and I find them unusually lovely. You appear to have a rare and
wonderful talent for arranging beauty, a good eye, and I salute you for
improving the world, yours and mine, through effort and love. (For it
looks as though you love doing that.) Thanks again for the pictures.
By the way, do you have them posted anywhere on the 'net for the delight
of casual passers by?
Kirby
gerald
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Thank you Kirby,
I do not have the arrangements posted yet. Many years ago I had a number of web
pages that I built for myself and for friends and relatives. Soon I will be
changing over from Excite@home
to Comcast and am thinking of again making a webpage when that transition is
complete, to display photos. Right now I store photos on a number of sites to
share with family and friends, like iphoto and ofoto.
Regarding the dry arrangements, it is just something that comes natural to me.
When I was a HS student and while going to college I worked for a florist, mostly
as a delivery driver but I did pick up a trick or two in floral designing.
I have always enjoyed searching for natures treasures including looking for
herbs, digging for antique bottles, searching for fossils and of course picking
dried weeds( as I like to call them). Of course all of these things keeps me in
the outdoors and that my be the real purpose of these endeavors.
I always had a slight interest in photography, but never was really to good at
this creative endeavor. The digital camera of course with the editoring progams
has changed all of that.
Now, no mater how bad the photos I take are, I can let the computer improve them.
This of course goes hand in hand with my outdoor searches mentioned above.
Now if a great programmer would just come up with a program
that lets me oil paint I could master that art. I am sure it would be an
improvement over my painting by numbers. :-)