From the Market

Wednesday morning at the flower market:
I picked up flowers for Juniper and Adam’s wedding, their rehearsal dinner, and this week’s flower subscriptions. We’ll go back tomorrow for the rest of the weekend orders, and to pick up the dahlias that were delayed on today’s truck.

It was a rainy, gray morning — the kind that slows everything down a little. Inside, the fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, bright and almost too sharp against the soft weather outside. The rows of buckets were filled with color: pincushion protea, blush dahlias, persimmon branches, and pomegranates the color of dried roses. Each bloom seemed to glow in the artificial light.

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