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February 27, 2010

Philadelphia Flower Show: To the sea

 

Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Susan Reimer
This is one of the most compelling displays at the Philadelphia International Flower Show.

Tiny vases were suspended on transparent guide wires and the flowers and the water in each vase, of different colors, depicted the Earth from the top of the mountains (white flowers: snow) sloping down to the ocean (bright blue flowers.)

The message seemed to be that the majesty of the Earth, from mountain tops to ocean shores, contrasts sharply with its fragility, represented by the tiny vases, the guide wires and the small flowers.

I might be making this up, but that is what the display said to me.

 

 

Posted by Susan Reimer at 9:11 PM | | Comments (1)
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Isn't is wonderful how interpreting art can be so subjective and personal?

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About Susan Reimer
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.
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