5 Beautiful Things
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This new feature is designed to inspire you to look at the world around you, to take note of the season at hand and to capture it – in memory or on film – for posterity. I will be choosing five photos each week for Beekman1802.com with this aim in mind. We’re calling the feature, The Five Most Beautiful Things In The World This Week
Bringing The Outdoors In
“Nature laughs in flowers.” That famous quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of my favorites, and its truth is never more evident when the sight of a beautiful flower garden brings a smile to one’s face. (It seems nature’s laughter is infectious!) One of the easiest ways to brighten an interior space is to bring some of the outdoors in by creating flower arrangements. Just about every room in the house can benefit from a grouping of cut flowers, artfully arranged in a vessel of your choice.
Cutting and arranging flowers is an art that has been practiced for hundreds of years by cultures around the world. From the spiritual art of ikebana in Japan (a flower arranging technique from the 7th Century) to the Roman urns and vases unearthed in the ruins of their ancient cities, the evidence is clear: flowers have always seduced us.
One of my favorite ways to arrange flowers is free-form. As much as I appreciate a beautifully-executed formal arrangement, full of symmetry and balance, the essence of free-form speaks to the natural exuberance of flowers and their giddy effect on human beings: simply letting your imagination and your instincts guide the placement of the flowers in the vase or vessel to achieve something spirited and free, something that speaks to the heart, something that was created by the one-and-only you!
Below are images of country flowers arranged free-form. I hope they make you smile!
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Photos:
1. floragrubb.com
2. fromtherightbank.com
3. saltharbor.squarespace.com
4. stylemepretty.com
5. meggielynne.tumblr.com
Andrew Ritchie is the creator of Martha Moments, a blog devoted to Martha-Stewart related content and her community of supporters. He lives and works in Toronto, Canada, and has been a longtime friend of Brent & Josh, Beekman 1802 and Sharon Springs. Each week he’ll scour the world (wide web) to find the 5 most beautiful things to inspire you. Follow Andrew on Pinterest.
