i LOVE lavender. love, love, LOVE it! while we were on whidbey island, we passed several signs for lavender farms, and trying to be coy i suggested that we visit one of them because of course “moriah would REALLY enjoy that!” i say that only because at every bath and bodyworks type shop that we have passed for the last 3 weeks i have had to pry the child off of the lavender displays, so it wasn’t completely self-serving of me. turns out i was right, not only did mo jump at the chance, but nephew harrison joined us as well and we had a great time. before i show the great beauty of my 2 favorite colors (green and purple), i want to share a quote. mind you, the natural beauty of this place BLEW ME AWAY, and i hoped to find a quotation that mirrored and expressed what i saw and felt. instead, i found one real quote and thought instead of going with the overused ONE real quote about lavender, i would go with a more fun, off-base quote that uses the word lavender… i KNOW it’s not referring to the flower, but perhaps you can look past that:
when the light turns green, you go.
when the light turns red, you stop.
but what do you do when the light turns blue
with orange and LAVENDER spots?
-shel silverstein
now wasn’t that cute? ok, so on with the pictures of the lavender wind farm:
the smell of dried lavender was a-MAZE-ing…
let’s take a closer look…
it’s even pretty dried! there were tons of lavender flavored jams, honey, chocolate, and ice cream. normally, i like to keep flowers where they belong, in my NOSE not my MOUTH, but the jam was actually very good… thanks, ba-ba, for buying that jam and never pulling it back out again while we were there… but i’m not bitter…
here’s mo and harry showing some love in the lavender:
oh my gosh, there were myriads of all kinds of flowers everywhere (well, maybe not quite myriads), but i’m just going to cut to the chase and show you some lavender. ready??
frolicking children…
wow they look so happy, don’t they??? you would be too, if you had sniffed a little too much lavender…
ba-ba, you look gorgeous in the flowers… thanks again for not sharing that jam…
i like the look of misty-rain-frizzed hair… i’m not sensitive about it… really…
omg i think i could live in the lavender… but that would be counterproductive to life, right?
needless to say, i took countless photos for the purpose of using as computer wallpaper (because apparently that’s how i see the world), so here’s the wallpaper of the day:
happy lavender!!
