On Saturday, my husband and I took advantage of jet lag to get up early enough to visit the local sunrise (well, almost) farmer's market. While he chatted up a storm with the herb merchant about how to harvest cilantro, I roamed the market looking for raspberry-sorbet colored peonies. As I walked by a generic-looking flower stand, the merchant stopped me to give me a free blossom with some lavender. "Nice necklace", says he. Yeah, right, green old man (and he looked the part). Sure, it's just a free blossom from a flower vendor. But is he gifting every female passerby as a sales technique? No. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and that's especially true when a "green old man" kind of man looks at your "necklace". Don't get me wrong, I appreciate gifts. Appropriate gifts. It's nice to be admired. Not ogled. Beauty is everywhere for anyone to admire. That's fine. Take a look and admire beauty from an aesthetic point of view. Just don't forget that "it's not polite to stare" applies equally, if not more, to adults as it does to kindergardeners! At least I found my peonies...elsewhere.
After recovering from gross-out, I started to wonder when I could harvest the lavender growing in our garden. Through my google search I discovered a very cool blog - simple, handy and unpretentious
Not Martha. It's written by a woman as curious as the rest of us "amateurs" attempting to savor the little pleasures of life à la DIY. Thanks, Not Martha, for sharing the results of your experiments with us. Now I know to pick my lavender at week 5 when the buds are all, well, lavender.
What about you? Do you have any insights you'd like to share about your fabulous projects and adventures large and small?
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