Touching a hundred flowers…

Yesterday, I got together with my friend Donna S. and we went out to Northampton, Massachusetts to pick up my daughter Carrie.  After a nice lunch, we went to The Smith College Mum Show.

 

We’ve had a dull fall this year so it was a wonderful treat to walk into the Smith greenhouses and into a world of great fall color.  The mums are just gorgeous.  Of course, there are many more fantastic flowers there.  I am particularly in love with the orchids.  Donna actually suggested that I take up orchid growing as a hobby.  I think I will pass on that.  I just don't have what it takes to propagate plants of any kind.  But it’s a nice thing to think about.  Wouldn’t it be a great gift to bring

 a few of those happy flowers into the world?

 

Walking through the greenhouses yesterday brought a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay to my mind:

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one.

…Except with the SD card in my camera, of course.

This was one of the student's hybrids.  My favorite of all the mums.  What a fabulous color!

Who's more colorful...Carrie or that begonia?