Snapshots: The Alleluia Flowers

I volunteered to take care of the church again this year for Easter, so I could do the flowers. I didn't order a big arrangement for the altar from a florist this year, though. Instead I intended to go to Walmart and buy a bunch of flowers to make my own.

However.

I ended up having to go to a different town earlier in the week, not the one with the Walmart. I didn't want to have to drive 200 more miles later in the week just to get flowers, so I just bought some at the grocery store in the town I was in on Tuesday.

The selection, as you might imagine, was quite limited. As was the quality. I mean, this is an end-of-the-line, middle-of-nowhere-New-Mexico grocery store, not some upscale fresh market.

Grocery store flowers ready to ride home.

I supplemented those with lilacs, iris leaves, and other found greenery from the village, and decorated the altar.

I used the container from last year's professional arrangement for the main altar flowers. I didn't have that foam stuff that came with it--chickens love to peck things like that apart, alas--so I just stuffed a bunch of twigs in the bottom to form a lattice that I could poke the flower stems into. That worked surprisingly well. It probably helped that the lilac stems are quite thick and twiggy, too.

The inclusion of the lilacs made the arrangements slightly more purple than I would have preferred, but I had to use what I had. And they do make the church smell incredible.

Happiest of Easters to all of you. I hope it's a lovely one.