Sunday 3 October 2010


Her manly portrait hung in the great hall, and was honoured every Founder's Day by a bunch of hard-wearing flowers such as chrysanthemums or dahlias.
From The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark.

My hard-wearing bunch of sunflowers has lasted more than a week but they're maybe too frivolous for the Marcia Blaine School for Girls.

2 comments:

Darlene said...

There is a field of sunflowers a short drive from our house. They look all business to me the way they follow the sun with their faces!

mary said...

Oh, how lovely, Darlene. I've only ever seen that in Italy.