The Whole is Greater

Pink cherry and lilac from the neighbors 

Sometimes two plus two equals five or nine or more.  When some of the parts are shared from neighbors and friends, the end result is beyond words.  So I gathered and combined flowers the other day until I was in a state of bliss. Truly the whole was greater than the sum of the parts.  But then flowers never did do the math.

Gathered from the yard

Two bunches of roses and a few accent color flowers were purchased for the arranging of Things I get to do today.  Cardoon leaves, calendula in yellow and orange,  lilly of the valley, tulips were from my yard. Pink cherry blossoms and white lilacs are from the neighbors.  What a gift!

Really Good Dirt

My sister was under the weather.  But the weather was actually brilliant sun and blazing blue sky with shocks of yellow and orange-leafed trees thrown in for gaudy good measure.  Talk about insult to injury--not feeling good enough to be out puttering in the extravagance of a fall day!

In our family fresh, still-warm tapioca pudding is a comfort and get-well sort of food.  So I would make a pot just for my unfairly, under-weathered sister.  She would get most of it at least.  Cooks need to sample some of the wares for flavor balance and, well, just because it taste so wonderfully good.

Holds 3 cups and has no hole in the bottom

While the pudding cooled, I searched for the just-right container for transporting this feel-good "medicine" with an eye for a delightful and uplifting presentation.  That bowl is too big;  this one is too small.  That's a flower pot, not a bowl!



Indeed a lovely white flower pot from my favorite store had just come out of the dishwasher and was waiting on the counter for me to put it away.  Perfect size!

Pot filled with tapioca pudding.  Calendula (edible flowers) waiting to be "planted"

Very happy flowers "growing" in warm "dirt"

Perfect  uplifting presentation.  Oh, the Things I get to do today!  Here's a "Be Well" pot of flowers with Really Good Dirt.*










*After thought: cover the white "dirt" with 1/2" of crushed dark chocolate sandwich cookies for a more real black/brown "dirt" effect.