Winter Flowers and the One Lovely Blog Award
I am delighted to accept and have added the award button to my blog. As a requirement for the award, I will share five things my readers don't know about me.
1) I spent my first year out of grad school teaching Kindergarten to 27 sweet little people who have since grown up and graduated. It was an experience I will always treasure although I moved on to teach at the college level in the field of art history.
2) I love to cook- but not breakfast. Yes, it's true, the most important meal of the day is not one I'd like to be fixing. So, I have a collection of easy recipes for "morning muffins" that I make (and freeze) to have with coffee. Sometimes I eat too many...
3) Ballet is my favorite form of exercise.
4) I collect art books and actually read them. I do not think that one can ever own too many books!
5) My first garden was about 8x8 feet and filled with flowers, herbs and vegetables all mixed together. It was a beautiful mess of pots surrounded by crawling oregano and mint with little muscari blossoms coming up in the middle every spring. My Dad helped me tend it and it was always such a happy place.
Now I'd like to nominate five blogs that I find lovely for the One Lovely Blog Award. Please accept only if you want to as I will not be offended if you don't have the time. It was hard to choose as there are so many blogs that I enjoy but these stand out for their lovely decor, food, photographs, and/or flowers.
On another note, the winter flower photographs in today's post are of paperwhites and a beautiful pink amaryllis that was given to me as a Christmas present last year. The bulbs for both flowers were forced indoors. A few blooms in the house always help tide me over until our garden wakes up for the spring.