RX: Pick Three Flowers and Call Me in the Morning.

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful: they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."...Luther Burbank

I don't think I would want to meet the person whose spirits weren't lifted by the sight or scent of a flower. Flowers are a rich celebration of color, form and fragrance and are continually used to commemorate special occasions, or even the reason for the occasion, such as Washington's tulip,daffodil and lavender festivals.  Flowers inspired artists like Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh to paint art that continues to stir our souls and at the same time relax our bodies.  For centuries people have used flowers as part of their worship, and in ancient times flower bulbs, as well as spices, were used as currency. They are of infinite value.

A dear friend of mine recently fell down and broke her hip. Gorgeous bouquets of  flowers continue to be brought to her home and their presence has shown her how special she is to us, as well as uplifting her spirits and soothing the emotional trauma of her surgery. When my children were young I would send them to school with big bouquets of flowers from my yard to their hard-working teachers, and my flowers today seem to be just the thing when one of my neighbor's blesses me with a ride to the doctor, or is sick or in mourning...or just because.

These little beauties are some of my first spring blooms.

I love how the lavender stems of the sedums echo the color of the rhododendron.

My delphiniums have been known to cure tension headaches!


 So, if you are: thankful, sad, joyful, blessed, stressed, honored, cranky, in pain, in love, rejected, mad, moody, reflective, worried, exuberant, nervous, blissful, or bashful, pick at least three flowers and give them to someone else or put them in a vase by your bed and dream sweetly. In the morning you will either see those beautiful reminders of God's love for you, or you will remember how blessed you've made someone feel by honoring them with flowers, either way, you will feel better. To your health!