{"id":285,"date":"2011-07-13T21:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post285"},"modified":"2011-07-31T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T18:46:26","slug":"on-the-importance-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post285","title":{"rendered":"On the Importance of Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was first dating Jared, I used to say how he didn’t need to buy me flowers for Valentines Day, birthdays, or anniversaries. First of all, flowers can be expensive. Anybody who has had a significant other or a mother knows that any flowers bought on Valentine’s Day and\/or Mother’s Day are priced to rack in the big money. And then, after a few days (or if you’re really lucky, a week or two) they die. Get all limp and soggy or dried up and brown, and it’s a nasty mess to clean up.<\/p>\n

So I told Jared not to bother.\u00a0 He, like any smart man, decided to play it save and did it anyways, but I would have probably been okay without it. I really did feel badly about how expensive and overrated they could be.<\/p>\n

But secretly, I was always really glad he did it.<\/p>\n

I LOVE having fresh flowers around the house.<\/p>\n

\"Cayenne<\/a><\/p>\n

Especially since we have our own home, I feel a certain pride in the beautiful things that are around, even the temporary items like flowers that you have to keep changing.<\/p>\n

\"Flowers \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s a certain charm in having them around. The subtle fragrance. The many shapes. The variety of color. I’m always amazed with the beautiful, delicate colors that nature can come up with. I love being surprised by the natural beauty that we can find in the world, and so grateful for it being here.<\/p>\n

\"Cayenne<\/a><\/p>\n

H-E-B is having a “Rose Festival”. Lots of the flowers aren’t in the best quality, but I found these “Cayenne” roses in the big bin and loved that color. And for roses, they have lasted quite well for the past 5 days. \ud83d\ude42 Woohoo!<\/p>\n

On a side note, I also found this awesome color highlight setting on the phone that I tried out on the roses!<\/p>\n

\"Color<\/a> \"Color<\/a><\/p>\n

What are the simple things that brighten YOUR day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was first dating Jared, I used to say how he didn’t need to buy me flowers for Valentines Day, birthdays, or anniversaries. First of all, flowers can be expensive. Anybody who has had a significant other or a mother knows that any flowers bought on Valentine’s Day and\/or Mother’s Day are priced to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jared","category-just-here","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}