Sunday Bouquet: Mother’s Day Flowers (& a Poem)

Mother's Day Flowers Still Life In StyleCarrot's Living Room

Photo by Marni Elyse Katz/StyleCarrot

Bamboo & vase from Ikea; large photo by Winky Lewis; plywood tray from Moss;
Mother’s Day flowers from Winston Flowers compliments of my mother-in-law. 

Happy Mother’s Day

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The Song Of The Old Mother
I RISE in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed
Of the matching of ribbons for bosom and head,
And their ~y goes over in idleness,
And they sigh if the wind but lift a tress:
While I must work because I am old,
And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold.
—William Butler Yeats

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Sunday Bouquet: Sweet White Blossoms in Farmhouse Pottery

White Flowers In Vase By Farmhouse Pottery At Good Beacon Hill

Photo by Marni Elyse Katz for StyleCarrot

White blossoms
Farmhouse Pottery
Good on Beacon Hill, Boston

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Sunday Bouquet: Shaggy Green Mums and Art

Green Mums WIth Landscape

Photo by Marni Elyse Katz / StyleCarrot

I love to buy these green mums from Trader Joe’s. They’re not expensive, they last a long time, and the crisp, fresh green looks great with my favorite vase, purchased years ago from The Society of Arts & Crafts. Woodblock artwork on left is an Etsy find and the landscape painting on the right from the now shuttered Judi Rotenberg Gallery.

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Sunday Bouquet: These Summer Flowers Feel Like Christmas

Red And White Dahlias

Photo by Marni Elyse Katz / StyleCarrot

These garnet and white dahlias have a distinctly Christmas-y feel, but they’re from my summertime garden on Cape Cod.

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