For my birthday someone dropped by and gave me flowers.Carnations.
Blue carnations.
You know...white carnations that were died with food coloring.
CHEESY!
Wow, that sounded bratty. I was very thankful for the gift and I'm operating on the assumption that it was the LAST bouquet the grocery store had, otherwise I would have received something real classy.
At any rate, the flowers got me thinking about the last time someone gave me carnations. They told me a story of the Carnation Revolution, which occurred in 1974 in Portugal. During a military coup, citizens and soldiers in Lisbon gathered at a flower market and soldiers started putting carnations in the barrels of their guns. This peacefu
l protest was instrumental in restoring democracy to Portugal.Kinda cool. Kinda made me appreciate these flowers more. Kinda made me want to start a carnation revolution of my own (sans food coloring).
But if you are going to get me flowers try lilies. Or orchids, birds of paradise, daisies, sunflowers. I love them all. Just not roses. I'm soooo not a fan of roses. I'll even take carnations over roses.
And that's all I have to say about that.
-lovie love dove
2 comments:
Wow I'd never heard of the carnation revolution. And I've been to Portugal. And my surname is Portuguese. Hmmm.
Me too - not a carnation OR rose girl. Gerber daisies make me smile!
From what I remember....you hate orchids too!
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