I was going to get so much done today, and I didn't...I was just blah...I was going to get another still life set up and photographed, with lilacs in my little chippy blue transferware creamer (I used to be too picky for chipped things, but not any more ~ could be that "perfection" isn't anywhere ~ in any aspect ~ of my life these days...if it ever was ~ ;) ~ anyway, this little creamer (from around 1850, from the Romantic period of transferware) has so much character! I wish it could tell me of all the tables that it has graced, and about all the people around them...
I get off track so easily!...So, I was going to set up lilacs in little Chippy Blue, with some pretty Gala apples in my Grandmother's little green Depression glass bowl, and maybe a sea shell or two...on my lacy Irish tea cloth....
But I didn't. I wasn't productive at all today (or "pro-duck-tive", as my duck-loving friend Elaine says...) No, I wasn't that, either.
However, I just couldn't let these pretty heirloom lilacs that I swiped last night shatter for naught, so I did manage to get a few pictures, and I have to say, they are quite nice on their own, without all the extra fluff. (Yes, I did say "swiped"; my daughter Katie drove the getaway-car)...I have mentioned this before, but I'll explain... Our fair city has a park almost on the outskirts of town that has beautiful lilac bushes ~ probably 60-70 years old, if they are a day. I'm sure they were planted by someone with more of an eye for aesthetics than some of the landscapers of the newer parks... Some years they are heavily laden with gorgeous drifts of blossoms, the air around them virtually vibrating with the hum of nectar-tipsy bees...
And some years they are pitifully pruned, barely-leaved bunches of sticks. At some point during the spring, the powers-that-be have a park-maintenance crew go out and shear everything within reach within an inch of its life.
This year, they are fabulous! (Someone must have needed a raise, and the park plants went untouched. So far.)
However, I'm sure my cutting a few branches would still be frowned upon, so it has to be done discreetly... :)
I will do it again tomorrow, if I can get myself out of this rut!
"Yes...??"
Even Leo wasn't in the mood for productivity (or pro-duck-tivity, either)...you don't have to know much Kitty-language to get the gist of these looks...
"May I HELP you??....No?...Then go away".
Oh well, as Scarlett said, "Tomorrow is another day"...
Have a good, productive Monday, everyone!
♥ ♥ ♥
Anne
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