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Hello! If I may be so bold, there is just something wrong with you if you don't like the color purple. It's regal and joyous. I love to see it in the garden. It's the color of one of my favorite scarves. And it's wonderful when one of my friends comes to book club with streaks of purple in her hair. (I could never be so brave.) The color is long associated with royalty, magic, mystery, and piety...all good things, I think. I suppose purple is most connected with passion, a complicated emotion. When carried away, passion can take us...

Hello! Dolly Parton sang everything about butterflies we need to know: "Love is like a butterfly, as soft and gentle as a sigh, the multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings, love makes your heart feel strange inside, it flutters like soft wings in flight, Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing." Well, almost everything. Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet? When you think about it, butterflies are strange things. They come from eggs, they spend their youth as worms, then worms with feet, and then they wrap themselves in a sleeping...

Hello! How brave is the daffodil? Unafraid to shoot up at the first sign of warm weather and unfurl its greenery and unleash its sunshine-colored petals. "I am here. I am alive. I am again," it seems to say, disregarding the likelihood that a late snow will dust it in wet, frozen powder. The daffodil perseveres. The Latin name of the daffodil is Narcissus, a reference to the myth of the hunter who became so obsessed with his own reflection in water that he drowned. The story says the daffodil sprang from where he died. It has also been suggested...

Hello! Another snowstorm! Wet snow weighs heavy on the ash tree across the road. I'm not even going to bother to shovel. Instead, I will stay inside and drink hot tea and wait for warmer winds to melt it all away. I will sit and think of spring. I love the tenacity of spring flowers. I love the idea of herbaceous bulbous perennials underneath the snow, waiting, pining. The Snowdrops, a simple and delicate flower, inspire us, perhaps because we are so excited to see signs of life after a long winter. Shakespeare wrote of making garlands of fritillaria and...

Tasty Little Things releases a dozen collage-themed greeting cards just in time for the holidays. In the Reindeer Collage Collection, deer leap and play and the cards are greeted "Happy Holidays". The Winter Collage Collection features snowflakes, stars, gifts, and poinsettias. Cards are greeted "Season's Greetings". And in the Christmas Collage Collection, ornaments and candy canes mingle with Christmas trees and stockings. The cards are greeted "Merry Christmas". Titles are available as single notecards, in boxes of 8 notecards, and as part of a box of assorted cards. Tasty Little Things Notecards are 5.5”x4.25” and are printed with a unique,...