Amy Lu's View

I’ve never been into flower gardening–it seems like way too much work (all gardening seems like too much work.)

I tend to just wear my flowers.

I wrote a rather in-depth post not too long ago (https://amyluedtke.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/flower-power/*) about my penchant for floral print clothes, focusing on an artifact from high school I still own and occasionally wear. (I wore the dress at church as service leader just last week).

I thought it would be relatively easy to create a related post in honor of Floral Design Day that just featured photos of my various floral outfits, but looking for photos always turns into more of a project than I’m expecting. Finding the photos is hard, and experiencing all the stirred up memories and emotions is harder (lovely, and funny and bittersweet.)

Dealing with photos from the pre-digital era is even more arduous. How to transfer these magical images from the mysterious substance of paper to the realm of the internet?

I actually have become rather skilled at taking digital photos of paper photos so I can post them.

I’ve been surprisingly remiss in taking selfies while I’m donning my contemporary flower fashions. I briefly considered doing a mini at-home photo shoot to get more photos (and content), but it was too cold today for me to get out of my flannel and sherpa and dress up. And I was having a no makeup day.

*Wow I realize now my original post about flower clothes was almost 3 years ago!