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I love flowers, blooming in the garden,
wild flowers by a road site,
freshly cut at a farm stand,
and pressed with love in a Herbarium.
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So when a few years ago my friend
Laura@52Fleabid and purchased two exquisite Herbariums from e-bay.....
one for each of us,
I was thrilled.
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There were pages and pages of dried flowers.
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It was always a double page with a hand-drawn
picture and description in pencil on the left hand
and the pressed flower on the right.
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I wonder who this young girl was,
was this a school project,
and where did she find all these beautiful flowers?
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Look at all the details in her drawings.
She describes everything so well.
This was in the year 1908 and in my mind
I picture a thirteen to 15 year old little girl
with her head covered by a straw hat,
a white dress of fine lawn fabric,
running through the meadow and delighting
in a new find.
Perhaps she had her best friend joining
in this adventure.
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I think she had a lot of fun putting
this Herbarium together.
Over a hundred years later, I treasure it as
much as she did, maybe even more!
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I framed as many as would fit in our hallway
and hung them with great pride.
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My little imaginary girl,
I think you would be happy with the
way I honored your Herbarium.
It has given me so much pleasure!
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Here are a few close-ups.
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At the back page of the book was the
terminology of all the flowers in detail.
Reading it, I learned a lot.
I hope you had fun browsing through the
Herbarium with me.
God bless,
Evi