Going a little tropical… with red anthurium & sago palm fronds in a stamped & soda-fire vase. I went with a square vase with a squiggly-scrolly pattern to complement the organic floral.

Handmade pottery always makes the flowers look happier!!!

Handmade pottery always makes the flowers look better!!!

Another beautiful bouquet of farm-fresh dahlias from Vangie’s Farm… at yesterday’s Farmer’s Market in Andersonville. Such amazing colors & textures. I do love growing some dahlias in my garden… but they never get quite as amazing as these ones!!! Good thing I have plenty of vases ready to go whenever some new flowers come home with me!!!

Sometimes a blue vase just makes the blue hydrangeas even prettier! A stamped & soda-fired oval vase helps spread out the flowers so you can see more hydrangeas side-to-side!

Morning sun streaming onto my back porch. Highlighting this fun plant in a hanging container. Not sure what it is?… but I’m enjoying the bright pop of color & the new little flowers that just started blooming. I’m happy… and the plant looks happy too!

Another beautiful floral arrangement picked from her garden… in one of my textured & soda-fired square vases. So pretty… thanks for sharing with us Rhonda!

This morning’s dahlias in my garden. So beautiful this late in the summer. And I love how they seem to evolve & change colors day-by-day as they age & open larger! A nice “crop” this summer… hoping I have a couple more months before the big freeze comes to kill ‘em off!!!

After another fun trip to the Farmer’s Market, I’m so glad I picked up a large bouquet of dahlias from Vangie’s Farm. Their flowers are just AMAZING…with such great colors, textures & dimensions. A fantastic collection of farm-fresh flowers… a custom-made collection of flowers just for me. Good thing I “just happen” to have a few extra vases around the place to put them in!!!

Another fun art fair surprise!!! I’ve mentioned my on-going inability to grow pretty “weeds” in my garden. I LOVE black-eyed susans… and everyone says they’re so invasive & will take over in no time. And yet somehow, I can’t seem to get them to thrive. I have a couple teeny plants that have survived, but not thriving?! So it was so nice today when one of my longtime fans brought me a couple transplants from her yard for me to try. Thank you Carmie… you’re the sweetest!!! I just hope I don’t kill these too?!!!