The Packages Said They Would Be Black

I find, on certain occasions, that if I dress a particular way, I’ll feel my moods affected by my ensemble.  Today I dressed like a rainbow and went a little heavy on the teal.  The results were splendiferous.  I felt whipped up and out of my melancholy and flung into the great wide blue.
I also wore my favorite grey booties while taking a garden tour.
My grey booties always help.
They’re like CRM’s muffins.
The great thing about being out and about in the gloriousness of cultivation is that things seem to come into focus, or slide out of focus, or what have you.  In the case of today, a little bit of both happened.  I managed to grasp the evenness of clarity in the realm of certain perspectives and I let a few things slip away into the ether.

My grapevines are about to burst.
Other things are bursting: 
Like the tip of my favorite inky black pen.
The fruit bowl on my kitchen table.
And the tulip patches.
The packages said they would be black.
In all reality, they’re a moody sort of gloriously pompous purple.
The formality of these blossoms is mildly irksome, slightly intimidating and awfully get-out-the-china!  
The Queen is coming for tea!
This said, I don’t mind the false advertising.  Not in the least.  I’m quite pleased with this tulip patch.
I’ve cut a few for vases around the house
just to give the iris blooms I harvested yesterday a bit of competition.

Comments

  1. the queen is coming!
    get out the teapot and the finest chai tea!
    fresh cream!
    honey!

    lovely colourfull photos "today" [this morning??] as i peruse your blog at 0030 alaska time.

    agree muchly about dressing a certain way and then my mood changes….
    which is why i dress the way i do most every day when i leave the house for work or happenings in town. dress or skirt. black leggings. ankle boots. year round. the alaskan-woman attire. in *my* part of alaska, anyway. in *my* alaskan mind….

    so glad you are home!

  2. Lara Lewis says

    are those "queen of the night" tulips? they look like the ones i planted years ago shoulder to shoulder with some bright pink companions. the effect was lovely. i love seeing pictures of your garden. 🙂

  3. dailycoyote says

    that mirror!!!

  4. i'm in LOVE with votre tulips. those are gorgeous!! i think tea in that garden would be very alice-in-wonderland and therefore very very enjoyable indeed.

    love you lady bird…i have some news 😉

  5. mme. bookling says

    oh yes! i am so terribly happy that you didn't miss the blooms, they are just perfectly pristine with just the right note of melancholia. can't you freeze them in time?

    my muffins! hahaaa…tell me you saw the Betty White SNL…oh that skit.

    regarding your mood.
    boots.
    oh yes.
    boots ALWAYS help.

    as a matter of fact, i decided to traipse around the airport in my victorian boots and i feel just fabulous despite leaving my life again.

  6. boltsense says

    Love the color of the tulips. Hope they come back year after year.

  7. angela walker jewelry says

    Love your tulips, they are beautiful!
    I had the same thing happened to me although I got an awful neon orange tulip instead of a deep pumpkin orange…: )
    Health and happiness,
    Angela

  8. I'm trying to befriend colors and patterns.
    though, branching out from my black/white/solid color getups has been more of a challenge than i thought!
    you inspire 😉

    by the bye – tulip & vw shot…
    too good!

    happy june,
    -lulu

  9. MrsLittleJeans says

    My mood is always affected by what I wear and color…having said that I laughed in my heart when I saw you in your booties…you are too funny even though you were perhaps serious, here, I laughed again!

    The tulips are so very formal and perhaps you should get the china out.

    Mme Plume, I too constantly have things in and out of focus…that's how it is! I do love the rainbow shirt! Enjoy whatever comes into focus… : )
    xox

  10. sylvestris says

    Oooooo, those tulips are GORGEOUS!

    Fit for the Queen of Faeries.

    Love your colors too, Lady!

    🙂
    D

  11. Good Girls Studio says

    Gorgeous blooms! You are splendid in your rainbow attire 🙂 I always run to my yellow wardrobe for a pick me up!

  12. CRM – that betty white skit was beyond hilarious. i have a love affair with SNL…particularly Kristen Wiig or whatever her name is – she's pretty much genius.

  13. I love your flowers pictures. i always get dressed in how i feel that day an depends on weather too.

  14. that truly the dressing are always effecting moods and the point of colors they're more important along
    gloriously tulips your day 'today 'let me fall in love with them wonderful 😉

  15. Oh my goodness!!

    I LOVE the tulip patch! It's like organic punctuation marks in the air~! Semicolons and periods and the bottom halves of question marks anyway – Wow. Wow. Wow. (Tell Farley I said that.)

    The deep purple suits me right down to the ground. Now I want to plant some of these next year. 🙂

  16. Elly Rarg says

    Oh gorgeous lady, going a little heavy on the teal can only encourage brilliance 🙂 And hurrah for the pretty tulips 🙂

  17. Wow, I am in love with the "black" tulips! What a striking colour combination!

  18. The Noisy Plume: says

    You should see them standing up tall beside my fire orange patch of poppies. The color combination is to DIE for!!!

  19. ::mari:: says

    this post was just lovely in the extreme … those beautiful blooms and your own bright blooming face just lit up my morning. 🙂 or afternoon, whichever … we're getting a late start on the day today. 😉

    i dress much the same way every day … i used to feel shy and think i was boring, but i've come to embrace my muted tones and solids and the way they quiet and ground the frenetics of my inner working.

    [also adore the green stone ring on your hand — that doesn't look like plumage; a memento from your trip? i think that kind of jewelry can be the best — memories attached and all.]

    glad to see you home!
    xo.

  20. The Noisy Plume: says

    THAT RING!

    That ring is an antique.
    I found it in Petaluma at an antique shop. It features a carved gold band with a large rectangular cut of grade A, green chrysoprase. It is delicate. It resembles hope. I had to claim it, or it would have haunted me forever…

    🙂

    xx