Flowers In The House Of Food And Felines: January 2014

It was that kind of day.

You know how one thing leads to another?

As long as I had flowers, I thought, I might as well have a dinner party.

I have a new neighbor and she and her father, who faithfully drives down from New Jersey almost every week to help her with the reno, need to be fed.

And fed well.  They've taken up floors, pulled down walls, rewired, enlarged the bathroom, stripped and painted the doors and planted a few trees in their spare time.

He has a rotator cuff tear ( well who doesn't), lucky for her, in his left arm, from the time the 800lb bathtub crashed down on him as they were attempting to remove it.

Yet, he keeps working.  At least until his surgery on January 21st.

So I shopped, cooked, cleaned and put some flowers about. Albeit in a more simple fashion than usual.

White anemones in the back bedroom, still unoccupied except by the cats.

  And in my bedroom, a bottle of poppies.

 They help me to have a

sleep.

The dining room smells heavenly with jasmine, narcissus, lilac, bits of lavender and rosemary from my garden ( who knew) white parrot tulips plus one white poppy.

And do you remember how I always like to have a little something-something on my kitchen windowsill to enhance dish washing?

 I got distraction and then some.

A row of double narcissus, fragrant and creamy

And a visit from the neighborhood peeping tom.

We'll all be coming around to visit you.

Don't draw your shades.

You never know where we'll pop up!

xo J