I could barely believe my eyes. After days beneath 11 inches of snow, what’s left of ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ still sported a few flowers! The largest kept catching my eye and inspired me to create a winter bouquet. There's the tenacious blossom right in the center surrounded by sprigs of blue spruce and hemlock.
I tucked some snips of boxwood and bayberry around back and then poked in a dried hydrangea panicle and a stiff cotoneaster twig complete with bright red berries. Berries — deep blue and waxy — clung to the snip of bayberry, too; but the more I arranged, the more fell off. I quite liked them there on the sill with all the other fallen bits. I added a strand of fairy lights for a bit of charm and stepped back to admire nature’s gifts.
Funny, I spent quite a while making pictures of my arrangement, enjoying the everchanging winter light falling across the various colors and textures, before realizing the fairy lights had gone out. C’est la vie. I find it charming nonetheless!
