lovely lilac!

lilac is in bloom! i was lucky enough to get a couple bunches from eatwell farms at the sf farmers' market this past saturday. i was stopped several times by people (young and old, men and women, believe it or not) asking me where i had bought them from, so either i looked especially good that day or lilacs are pretty popular. [hmmm, i wonder which one it was...]

i just love lilac's fragrance. personally, i think narcissus (paperwhites), gardenia, and lilac have very similar scents. i especially love gardenia; so much so, that even though it was probably WAY too hot, we - ok, "i," as if kevin cared at all what the flowers were - chose them as the main flower for our wedding. (september in napa gets pretty frickin' hot; i think it was like 90 deg the day we got married.)

eatwell had some instructions on making homemade flower preservative, which was super easy to make: in 1 quart of water, mix 1 tsp each of sugar and bleach and 2 tsps of lemon juice. i wonder if this works for all flowers? my guess is yes, at least, for hydrangea - another one of my favorites... which if i'm not mistaken should be in bloom soon too! :D

i had the added bonus of feeling like martha stewart (minus the insider trading scandal, of course, as i look terrible in orange and don't have any clue how to make shivs) when i got home and artfully arranged them in my bouquet vase. (ok ok, more like just jabbed the branches in willynilly. sheesh, you people are such sticklers for the "truth.")

i managed to take a pic of them, posted below - aren't they pretty?!

[yeah, we finally found the camera-battery charger. turns out it wasn't "misplaced." we're just "blind." it was where it always is...for some reason we couldn't see it.]