Stargazer Lillies and Little Girls

Loran bought me my favorite flowers on a whim when I sent him to the store a few weeks ago. They were beautiful and the whole house smelled wonderful because of their fragrance. They looked good right up through Easter and I trimmed the dying ones back so that the unopened ones could open nicely.

Then one day I left the girls to eat their lunch by themselves for a bit while I checked on Loran. Suddenly I heard Ankica telling Lillian to get down, which meant Lillian had likely climbed on the table. What I found was a very strange looking little girl... (Braveheart anyone?)



Ankica had stuck her head into the big and polleny (is that a word?) blooms to smell them and she came out with globs of orange pollen all over her face. She is smiling hear because I had to laugh at the silliness of it all but she was NOT laughing by the time she was clean. After wiping the pollen, Ankica became YELLOW everywhere.

Luckily, soap and water and scrubbing got it off and she didn't have an allergic reaction to all of the pollen. A lesson was learned that day by at least one of us :-)