Red petal glory
London, ON, February 2009
[Click photo to enlarge. Click here for Thematic Photographic - Floral]
If you ask my wife, I don't bring flowers home nearly as often as I should. She's right. She deserves more frequent, tangible expressions of how I feel about her. It's never enough to assume your partner just knows: You've got to be obvious about it in obvious ways - like bringing flowers home just because you felt like it - as well as less obvious ones. At once, it's a subtle and none-too-subtle form of non-verbal communication that way too many people seem to misunderstand. Or not understand entirely.
When I do bring flowers home, I try my best to capture them in their pre-tossed-into-the-garbage state. They're perfect for such a brief amount of time that you either commit them to memory immediately or lose their loveliness forever. And since our south-facing kitchen gives us such perfect morning sun, it's common for me to interrupt breakfast for a quick floral-themed (or jam, or...) photo session.
There's method to my madness, as it's difficult for my wife to shut me down when the subject matter is a bouquet I brought home for her. At least that's the way my ham-fisted man's logic sees it.
Your turn: Why are gifts of flowers so important to so many? (Note: this question is targeted at folks of any gender.)
OH a Gerbera...what a beautiful perfect looking flower. Normal i'm a wildflower kind of girl but i have a thing fer Gerberas .
ReplyDeleteMy husband is the one who cares for the flowers in the yard, and he is the one who brings them in and arranges them in a vase.
ReplyDeleteI think flowers speak to our hearts because they are a gift of beauty.
The process of buying or preparing gifts gets you out of yourself and into someone else. A good way to move beyond petty stuff in relationships.
ReplyDeleteI think flowers are just a nice way to show someone you care, male or female. I have been known to buy my hubby flowers, just as he buys them for me quite frequently.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Gerbera Daisies!
Here is a submission for a shadow shot I did, but it is flowers; http://fredamans.blogspot.com/2010/08/shadow-shot_29.html
Sorry I'm not tech-savvy enough to html that link.
We often buy flowers or plants for each other. The flowers were beautiful when you brought them home and exquisite in this photo.
ReplyDeleteThere's just something about receiving/giving flowers. It's a "I was thinking of you" moment. As you already know pink or mauve tulips are my favourite, but anything you bring home brings a smile to my face.
xoxo
(insert low whistle here).
ReplyDeleteAwesome shot Carmi. I'm speechless. (rare, I know.)
I'm not really sure why flowers are so important (I'll have to give that some thought), but they are nice to receive.
ReplyDeleteRather than bringing cut flowers home, my Pa used to bring my Nanna potplants so that she could enjoy their blooms over and over again.
African violets, roses, orchids, succulents... They all made a longer lasting impression (and seemed to buy a greater level of forgiveness) than cut blooms, which fade quickly.
That said, a month or two ago a gentleman sent me a dozen red roses as part of the human mating ritual and to say thanks for a lovely weekend. I'd never been given red roses before. They were beautiful, and I was stoked!