Update! This week I picked up donations from Trader Joe’s on three days! That’s a tremendous amount of flowers to glean the best for each arrangement. You may wonder where the extra flowers go, when San Diego Hospice has enough for the people in their care. So...

“To be interested in the changing seasons is…a happier state of mind than hopelessly in love with spring.” – George Santayana Much as there is beauty in each season (and some people say that San Diego has no real change of seasons since the climate is pretty steady throughout the year) I still LOVE Spring!!!  longer days, sunny days, sporadic rainy days that clean the air and brighten the sky… the anticipation of...

Sometimes I’m reminded… to appreciate the little things…  to enjoy or indulge in something that is considered “an affordable luxury”! Not a huge, expensive, crazy extravagance, but a simple, special reward of taste or beauty or sound. I’m talking about cupcakes for breakfast! or a beautiful blossom on the corner of a cluttered desk… or a moment to listen to a favorite song. Here’s a story a friend...

What is it about the color blue that enamours us!? Whether you call it sky blue, azul, sapphire, baby blue, denim, navy, royal, arctic or ice blue- we love blue for the purity and coolness of the primary hue, the softness of the tint, and  deepness of the shade. It is a vast color, in every dimension. We sense it in our surroundings, and respond to it in subtle measures… calming us with wonder. On the cool side of the color spectrum, we...

                                                                                                                                                                                   Calla lilies- how amazing are they?! Incredibly amazing, I say! just a bit of background… Did you know that calla lilies are not actually lilies, but a separate genus? The calla lily was first catalogued in the mid 1700s, and misnamed by the famous Swedish...