A P U B L I C AT I O N O F T H E S K A G I T VA L L E Y F O O D C O - O P
OCTOBER–DECEMBER 2022
Flowers in Every Room Many Co-op employees can vouch for my infinite love of flowers. When the first local bouquets started arriving (late this year, due to our seemingly endless cold, wet spring), I would often parade them around, bringing black buckets of blooms into offices, gushing to anyone I shared the elevator with, or passed on the floor, exclaiming how lovely they were. “The first LOCAL flowers! Aren’t they so beautiful?!” If anyone got tired of my excitement over a cart full of flowers, it was well hidden. For the bountiful summer months, a blue pitcher on my coffee table is constantly filled with marigolds so bright they seem to glow in the dark, a sake cup almost hidden by the
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long, twisted stems of sweet pea blooms lives on my kitchen windowsill, an ever-changing arrangement in a Mason jar hides the view of guests across my dining room table, a vase on top of my dresser fills my bedroom with the scent of lilies. Not even the bathroom is exempt, my toothbrush is hidden behind zinnias crowded into a stemless champagne glass. Every room in my house is filled with flowers. What does someone like me do during the unpleasantly cold and dark days of winter to keep that joy and color alive? I make forever bouquets, force spring flowers to come early, and plan and daydream about the next season.
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