True Blue Friends

" A true friend reaches for your hand
 and touches your heart. "~
Attributed to Heather Pryor

I got an email the other night, from my best friend L.
It said, Open your front door I left something for you.
love, l

I ran to the door and at the top of the steps in my blue beach towel hamper, was an LL Bean tote filled with ...tah dah! an enormous bouquet of fresh blue , glorious blue! hydrangeas.
 

Maybe my most-all-time-best-favorite cut flower in the world! (I love the bushes too but they made me sad, missing Cape Cod and family...sigh.)

Plus she tucked in a huge batch of hand sewing, completed to help me due to my injured hand...and also just because she's the best. (If you get a heart sewed up by her, you're lucky!) And a jar of homemade snap pea pickles! Yum!

Am I blessed or what?

 

These flowers make me smile. They brought me joy all through a somewhat tedious and fraught holiday weekend....

The hydrangeas make me happy...

The shades of blue simply move my heart, touch my artist's soul?

I feast my eyes. And I treasure the dear friend who shared them with me....

 

Another friend, an internet friend, also sent a lovely gift. She and I share a love of and reverence for antique/ vintage Native American turquoise and silver jewelry. Especially bracelets, in my case.


Navaho Sunflower bracelet

 She has photographed her family's collection and was kind enough to send me pictures to pore over, drool over...yearn after, and learn from.



Santo Domingo Pueblo cuff



Treasures indeed!

Hopi picked silver cuf with turquoise flower

And I cherish all my blog friends and readers! Thank you for every visit, every comment....

love

        lizzy

gone to the beach.....

 

photos of silver bracelets courtesy of my friend L [another L]. Thank you!