White Lady

The weather has quite suddenly turned gorgeous here in Ohio. Hard for me to stay inside and work on my quilt and the white dolly underpinnings that I need to make for an order. Especially when there is a pickup truck bed full of new wondrously scented mulch to spread around fragrant hyacinth and bright red tulips.
These are in the front yard bed that I try to keep neat and trim for people who pass by. But my back yard is a different story. Stuff kinda gets out of hand back there. That's OK.

When I was growing up, we had tiny little white flowers that grew wild out under the Oak trees in the early spring before the leaves are on the trees. Remember when the crocuses and tulips would bloom?.. but those had to stay in the flower beds.. never to be picked by little girls. How hard was that?? So I anxiously awaited the Spring Beauties and wild Violets. We had hundreds of them. I would gather them in my little hands as many as I could hold, nibble on a few of the delicate white flowers' stems, and then take them in to my mother. She would reach up on one of her knick-knack shelves that were on either side the kitchen window, and carefully bring down the White Lady. The White Lady was a vase with a basket built right in to her skirt to fill with tiny flowers. I cannot remember a spring where I didn't look forward to this, even as I grew older.

Along with most of Mom's trinkets, I inherited the White Lady. She now lives on the shelf in my kitchen, and looks forward to the flowers every spring.
Trouble is, never had any Spring Beauties growing at my house in town. So I dug some of them at the same time I dug the crocuses, and brought them over here in a bucket of dirt.. put them in the back yard under some trees.. and hoped they would find conditions favorable to thrive here as well. It has taken a couple of years, but finally I think they are going to spread.. I hope! There are only nine of them out there right now, so I was very frugal to only pick two for the White Lady, and the rest Violets. But she will just have to wait patiently. Maybe next year there will be more.