Some people like to say that I have a way with words. But if I hadn’t gone into food-and-wine writing, I might just as easily have gone into flower designing. There’s something so creative about buying a big bunch of blossoms from John & Lita’s Produce & Flowers, my favorite flower farmer in the Pike Place Market (in the spring/summer), or Corner Flowers (at other times), coming home and perusing my vase collection, and figuring out the “perfect” seasonal bouquet.

Here are a couple of my creations, which are always placed atop a glass etagère that is lighted from below. 

And here’s another:

And here’s a memory from late-summer, made from John & Lita’s Teddy Bear Sunflowers: