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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Saturday SlobberLove

Sometimes on Saturday we indulge our leisurely dreamy gene and we sit and stare at our beloved lilacs for hours and we pretend that we live in a place that produces them without effort.

CAN YOU IMAGINE WALKING OUT THE DOOR AND SEEING THEM ALL THE TIME AND PICKING THEM?  we wonder, drooling.

And we sniff them and smell them and if we could we'd drown in their aroma---the only aroma that could distract us from paying $19.99 for a bunch of flowers---our FAVORITE ALL TIME FOREVER  FLOWERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE FOR APPROXIMATELY 4.5 DAYS EACH YEAR AND THAT LAST, OH, ABOUT 2.8 DAYS AFTER BRINGING THEM HOME.

It is as if they represent so much goodness to us. So much pretty perfectness for our needy nostrils and yet so tragically fleeting.

PACK UP OUR BAGS WE'RE MOVING TO THE EAST COAST!  we say, half joking.

And then we sit and gaze and stare at their beauty some more while reminding ourselves that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Yours In Purple Grandeur,
Larry Lilac

5 comments:

The Zadge said...

That photo is awesome!

duffylou said...

So cool!

linlah said...

Also, better to have stayed on the west coast where the lilacs come earlier and stay longer.

Twisted Susan said...

Every Mother's Day the husband comes home with a new lilac bush FOR ME.

Lora said...

my grandmother had lilacs in her yard and I used to stand in the middle of the bushes and just BE.

Love.