Day 49: Flower Girl

As I'd blogged earlier on, I love flowers! Since I went all out and bought myself flowers for the first time ever back in June, I had to do something a little different today.

For the past two weeks, I've had a beautiful bouquet of flowers on my kitchen table. Unfortunately, they began to wilt, and I needed to throw them out. I replaced the bouquet with my red faux standby flowers, but it just wasn't the same.

So, after work, I stopped at Gutt Farm in Glastonbury to cut and make my very first bouquet of flowers. I asked the girl at the stand if I could pick and cut my own flowers from the field. She offered to let me pick flowers from pre-cut ones at the stand, but I wanted to enjoy the full experience of making my own bouquet. She handed me scissors, and told me I could pick one sunflower and 11 other flowers. I walked up and down the field, looking for the brightest and prettiest ones. I shooed away bumblebees and other insects in order to make my floral arrangement. While I won't be quitting my day job to become a florist any time soon, I can walk by my bouquet sitting on the kitchen table, knowing I made it all on my own.