Ah, Trader Joe’s. Source of inexpensive food, flowers, paper towels, and this – a lovely orchid. I have never been fortunate enough to possess one before this. And, of course, I won’t be able to transport it back to New York in July. First of all, I’ll be on a plane…but when we packed up and moved all out stuff out East on a truck almost 8 years ago, I had to give up all my house plants and pass them on to others who I could only hope would keep them alive. California won’t let you take a plant out or in. I tend to bond with everything – all plants have a personality, my little stuffed bear, Chloe, has a sensitive soul and hears everything I say, I won’t let anyone deliberately kill a bug, I talk to little spiders as I free them from the bathtub….what can I say? When I was little, I remember getting very sad everytime we bought a new car because I felt we were abandoning our old one and it would be heartbroken. I still have some of that in me.
So, I took a chance buying this orchid. Obviously, I hope it lives on and I have to pass it on to some friend in San Diego. It was just so beautiful that I had to buy it. And I will get attached. I already am.
Claudia, I love your orchid and the jewelry you showed in your last post. I also really love the robin’s egg blue glasses you’re wearing in your new avatar photo! All of my reading/magnifying glasses are bright colors or funky patterns.. That blue is fantastic!!… Donna @ An Enchanted Cottage
that is sad to leave them behind.
here’s to many new plants!
happy spring to you-
chasity
Do you remember our brown sofa? I wouldn’t sit on the new ugly green one until I got sick. I was devastated that we got rid of the old one. Love the flowers love you.Mere
enjoy the spring with your orchid. the east will be in full hot bloom when you return.
love hearing about your childhood stories about feeling badly for the cars. i was/am so like that. gosh, i remember bawling over a car as a child. one college prof. was always writing “too anthropomorphic” on my essays! it’s now my favorite word! TMI?
happy spring!
xo