Mendocino Floral Design

11/20/2022

Mark your calendars, call your friends, get excited!

01/19/2021

This 👍

After 40 [sic] years in the desert, Inauguration Day 2021 is here. I’ll be watching this historic event as a morality play in three parts:

ONE: At the West Front of the U.S. Capitol stand two people who had the courage to run for office amid a blizzard of lies, knives, and crypto-fascism.

Joseph R. Biden, Jr., grew up in a middle class family. During 40-plus years of public service, he's been shaped by his share of defeat and grief. Kamala D. Harris was born in the U.S. to parents from India and Jamaica. She broke thru barriers of white supremacy, misogyny, and racism to become a “first” in every office she's held for the past 15 years. Neither one of them is perfect—if you want “perfect,” look in the mirror! But both are REAL people: decent, intelligent, experienced, and graceful in good times and bad.

They're here because they were chosen by 51.3% of all votes cast in 2020’s fair and legally vetted election (vs. 46.8% for their opponent). No amount of Twitter-twaddle or Republican revisionism will change that old-fashioned fact. There’s a lot to celebrate here, and we who treasure democracy will do just that.

TWO: In the public spaces outside the Capitol, there are no crowds cheering for democracy. That’s due to a mismanaged pandemic, and to the Jan. 6 insurrection, incited by POTUS and his enablers, and executed by domestic terrorists. Instead of cheering crowds, there are steel barriers, rolls of razor wire, and upwards of 25,000 armed security forces to protect us against violent thugs and assorted lunatics, our fellow citizens.

Every U.S. citizen worth his or her salt should work to help assure that the violence of Jan. 6 never happens again—to our leaders, or people of color, or school children sacrificed to Second Amendment madness. There must be no repeat of the scenario Yeats wrote about in 1919: “Things fall apart; / the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”

THREE: Finally, we come to #45 and his entourage skipping the Inauguration to get out of town early. Their insolent pre-Inauguration “farewell” is a snub to the Bidens and to all who care about a peaceful transition of power. It’s a 21-gun salute repeat of the message #45’s spouse wore when she went to the border to express her Trump-branded “care” for children torn from their families by his policies: “I really don’t care, do U?”

#45 is on his way to something worse than being rated as the worst president in U.S. history. History will be merciless to him and his entourage as new evidence of greed, corruption, cruelty, and crime pops up. As these people depart D.C., the most civil words I can muster come from Lady Macbeth: “Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once.”

In 4 years, #45 has achieved only 4 things I’m grateful for: He’s made it hard for his party to claim that they and they alone can fly the “law and order” flag. He’s made it hard for them to say, “We and we alone support the police.” He’s made it hard for them to name Antifa and slander BLM as prime sources of political violence in the U.S. Best of all, he and his goons have proven that white is NOT supreme. No way.

Today we celebrate the wide range of citizens all across the political spectrum who understand what it means to be an American. Some had the guts to run for office. Some turned out to vote despite racist barriers. Some served and protected, even gave their lives, to push back murderous mobs of zealots. Some honored their oaths of office, a novelty in the era of #45.

Together, we gave the U.S.A. another chance to get it right. Today we celebrate—tomorrow we get back to work!

12/12/2020

Our holiday Sip & Shop has gone virtual this year! Please click through and support these outstanding local artists and get great gifts!! https://holidaysipandshop.weebly.com/?fbclid=IwAR0ApBabMdHWqRcI5KsRPAPGras5bkQKFNpSeNRD5R2fV1a4DbW_4sq0_pc

While this year we can’t be together fireside with a glass of wine as we enjoy one another in Ellie’s Farmhouse, we encourage you to support these local craftspeople in a safe and responsible...

12/11/2020

So, I guess I had a (floppy ) cascade bouquet at my wedding. It has a plastic holder and some weird doily thing, BUT it had lots of gardenias in it, so that’s redeeming I hope. Also, we had live music, great food, and tons of people, which sounds awesome right now. Plus, how about Tim’s tails?!? 1986

12/10/2020

Shop local, support small businesses, get great stuff!

I suggest you click through and explore the various sites and be sure to stop and grab some great gifts on Mendocino Floral Design! https://www.westcenter.org/holiday-marketplace?fbclid=IwAR10nAicnQ_xNDc7umTjs62TSCv1qMdtKD0OEinepzTwAABenM36rATLtkM

12/01/2020

Calling all alpaca lovers: you really should go to my online “favorite gifts” page (link to the site in comments) and grab some of these treasures before they’re gone. (p.s. they’re already going !)

11/30/2020

We won’t be hosting the annual Sip & Shop pop up event this year, but you can still get your hands on some of the always coveted luxurious alpaca gifts.
Shop local!

https://www.mendocinofloraldesign.com/some-favorite-things

11/17/2020

Cool people like beautiful flowers with their holiday feast. If you’re one of them, and I can help you out let me know right away!

11/16/2020

Do you need (want) beautiful flowers for your Thanksgiving table? For a friends table?
I have room for just a couple more orders. Let me know right away if one should be yours!

11/13/2020

I am so happy to have had a flurry of tiny weddings to help with during this crazy year. This one ended the season for me, claiming the last of the dahlias before frost and lots of garden roses. Of course captured it beautifully 🧡

11/02/2020

11/02/2020

A beautiful birthday gift delivered today 🧡

11/02/2020

Bringing botanical decor to the higher elevations in a space brings it to a whole new level 😀(I couldn’t help it!)

10/22/2020

Soaking up the last dahlia days of the year 🧡

10/22/2020

Today’s elopement 🧡

10/11/2020

Foam free backdrop

10/11/2020

Boutonnières are unique and customizable just like bouquets 👍

10/08/2020

Softening of the season

10/08/2020

This.

10/07/2020

Mini-monies for the win! (Quickest return on photos ever 👏)

10/06/2020

This stunning wedding is so much fun to look back on 🧡. Photos by

10/04/2020

Super sensory bouquet ❤️ contains rosemary, lemon geranium, basil, chocolate cosmos, thyme, olive and a few flowers too!

10/04/2020

Today’s beauty 🌸

09/28/2020

This micro wedding proves how beautiful they can be 🧡

09/10/2020

Thanks for pulling this one back up!

09/08/2020

These dahlia tubers were sent to me by a distant (unknown) relative who reports they have been grown in the family for a long long time. Does anybody out there have a “proper” ID on her?

09/05/2020

Today’s dahlias

09/02/2020

I wonder why I like the weird & funky blooms most? Anyone else feel that way?

09/02/2020

Fog bath morning

09/02/2020

These sweet elopements are so much fun 🧡

09/01/2020

Just so many stunning flowers. Thankful for the beauty that still exists in these weird times.

08/31/2020

Summer