kudzu flower beauty

photo by kristen bach

roses and wildflowers

i am in maine now and i always love walking around and seeing what is in bloom here…the raspberries are barely out, but all of the wild roses are in bloom and the air is fragrant! i also love that things like lady’s mantle thrive here, as the heat of our southern summers tends to overwhelm them. even in areas where garden beds are tended here, forest and fields always surround the edges, which makes foraging for flowers endless fun. a mix of groomed and wild comes together, in a vase.

words and photographs by rinne allen

from the woods

{note, this post ran a few weeks ago, but it got lost in the shuffle when we switched over to our new site design, so we are re-running it today, so it stays in the mix!}

my family spent five days in the woods over the thanksgiving holiday. this bouquet was made from what i could find on a long walk...rose hips, grasses, hazel, galax, and these funny long sticks with bumps on them- know the name? i don't, but my boys had fun playing with them.

photographs & arrangement by rinne allen