For months I’ve been driving past a sign that says, “Sunshine State Carnations.” Today I decided to drop in. The kind lady who greeted me laughed. “We don’t have carnations. Haven’t for fifteen years.”
“Oh.”
I was really disappointed. But I wasn’t about to give up. I’d seen the small riding tractors. The greenhouse webbing. And I wasn’t ready to go home. So I said, “What do you have?”
She laughed softly. “Come see,” she said as she led me to a huge steel door.
“I’m not going in,” said my husband. “That looks like a morgue.
The woman laughed again. But I was game. Then she opened the door.
When they opened King Tut’s grave, and Lord Carnervon asked Howard Carter, “What do you see?”
And Carter said, “Wonderful things.”
That’s what I saw, too. Aren’t these flowers beautiful?
I bought an armful! They had been cut fresh from the growing fields just that morning. See that smile on my face? Oh, boy. I filled three vases with my haul.
I encourage you to open that door…the one that looks frightening and forbidding…because behind it you might find FLOWERS!
Take a virtual tour of “Sunshine Carnations” aka Sunshine Tropical Foliage.
Lots of love,
Joanna
How fun! It's sort of snowy, grey, cold and dreary here, so the flowers are extra inviting to me! Hope you enjoy them! 🙂