In the doctor's waiting room yesterday, I read a chapter from a book about a person trying to encourage a person with tuberculosis. She'd felt like giving up, but seeing the dried flowers gave her just the bit of extra energy she needed to keep going, she said. When this information came to light, of course more pressed flowers were made and sent whenever possible from then on!
On the way home, I wondered if I was seeing things--could that be a clump of pearlescent pink, orange, and purple dried flowers in the creek? But as I strained my eyes and looked more carefully, I realized it was the natural iridescence of the Japanese pigeon!
Altho' he wasn't thinking "TB", I saw a Eurasian coot (white-shield and partial-webbed bird) closer to the middle of the stream caring for its friend. After all, it stood guard while the friend preened.
We needed to say goodbye to the birdies and go home. I saw the rose-red hibiscus by the roadside but knew it was much too large to make anything with. (I have seen keyrings or bookmarks made with single hibiscus flower petals, however.) Maybe someday somebody will want me to make something like that for them too...
