I found a couple antique metal teapots the other day while on my thrift store rounds. I was thinking about offering them for sale in my antique mall booth, but then had a vision of them filled with beautiful little pansies. So, now they are filled with pansies and perking up my back porch....
When I was a little girl, tulips were my favorite flowers. Over the years, pansies have moved to the top of list. I love their little flower "faces" and can't help feeling a bit more cheerful each time I look at them.
Pansies.
O give me not red roses,
That early dews have wet!
They speak to me of kisses
That are remembered yet.
O bring me not white roses,
That summer winds have drest!
For once I placed white roses
Upon a quiet breast.
But bring me purple pansies
If so you wish to please,
For them I have affection;
For pansies are "heart's ease".
__Louisa Cooke Don-Carlos.
Dear Things And Queer Things
Louisa Cooke Don-Carlos
(Lawrence: The World Company. 1934)
OH I like the flowers in the teapots. :) Very cute.
ReplyDeleteThanks :) The vision just popped in my head as I put the teapots in my cart. Sometimes those visions don't always turn out like they are in my head...ha!ha!...but I think this one was cute!
ReplyDeleteI too love pansies but they never grew well for me...I tried planting some from seed too. They are so pretty and "velvety". Look beautiful in your teapots...what a darling idea! I hope you have a WONDERFUL Mother's Day Shellie!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mom :) I have a "brown thumb" and hope my pansies will live for a little while...
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