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In honor of the fact that my day has been, lets see, nineteen hours long... I give you a quick n' dirty set of pictures from today. As you know, I am not a Morning Person. Somehow the full moon conspired against me last night and kept me up... and I rose at barely-five this morning to meet one of my clients. We headed to the LA Flower and Fashion District, which was lovely - a paradise of textures, colors, patterns, embroidery, toile, tapestries....

I picked up these heavenly-scented Stargazer Lilies for ....wait for it... four dollars. No, not each...four....dollars. Total. My whole house smells like a dream. Fynn and Edie approve. Note: Each one of these flowers is larger then my outstretched hand.

By the way - I don't normally allow him to hang out on our dining room table - he's just looking very "Still Life with Cat and Candlesticks" here, so I let him stay.

Detail of one of a bunch of luscious, huge black (despite the bloody flash, which turned it reddish-purple...) callas. Truly - the entire flower, pistil and stamen are a far deeper shade then eggplant (say it with me in Italian: "Aubergine" - isn't that much better?) - there is really no underlying purple or red tone in it at all. This one is a 'double', making it extra-rare.

The Animal. His Highness is a bit put out, because he and Edie had been posing for me for half an hour already. What a life!

Just for scale - the only thing I found that went with these exquisite flowers was this huge tropical leaf. Edie's about to pounce on Fynn and almost knock the whole shebang over.

Georgia O'Keefe, I am not - thankfully, talent isn't required to make these look amazing.

For contrast - leaf and calla.


Look how inky they are! Sorry....I'll stop rhapsodizing in...oh, about a month. These are by far the best flowers I've ever purchased for myselt. Cost: $18.00. Pricey for what things cost down there, but not compared to the $20.00 for the teeny-tiny, short ones I get wholesale here.

Demonstrating exactly why all my house plants now live outside; the blur on the left is Edie, about to bite down. I'd already barked, "Edie! NO!" about six times here.