a rose grows in oakland
one of my favorite gifts from victor came on Valentine's Day 2014 when for $19.99 he got me a rose bush from Whole Foods.
now at the time it wasn't anything to text home about, I mean a pot of dirt with a few sticks in it? but over the last three years in our garden it has really grown and continues to give me great joy:
And it is so photogenic!
the best part? Oakland is the perfect environment for roses, so doesn't require any work.
100 points for victor!
love,
aunt maggie
as previously mentioned i wanted lush overgrown living arrangements (i.e. plants in dirt) for our centerpieces. obviously i decided to grow them myself.
one of my favorite gifts from victor came on Valentine's Day 2014 when for $19.99 he got me a rose bush from Whole Foods.
when I first moved to California in the fall of 2013 the drought was big news, so one of my first acts of gardening was planting six lavender plants, which are notoriously drought tolerant.
Maybe it's the election results or our recent binge watching of walking dead but these days I've been thinking a lot about my apocalypse plan.
a few weeks ago i came across this giant piece of bark in the woods behind our friend's house.
over the past few years we've discovered a bunch of wacky stuff in our back yard: cast iron bath tub, vintage coke machine, and most recently several old disassembled engines.
so our offical wedding hashtag is #theredwoodweddingofmaggieandvictor and on loveauntmaggie it's #auntmaggiegetsmarried. But if I'm being honest these nuptials would better be summed up with something else all together: #putafernonit
This past year my favorite birthday present was a tie between:
- the very satisfying game of thrones season finale
- the plant recipe book by baylor chapman that victor got me
