In A Vase On Monday: Flowers and Hooters

Happy May Day!  I'm old enough to remember this day as one on which we'd make paper May Day baskets, fill them with flowers, hang them on the doorknobs of friends and neighbors, knock on the door, and run away.  If you think I'm making this up, look  here. I still have my students cut out construction paper baskets and paste paper flowers on it to take home.

I forgot the basket today but Lola decided she wanted to hold flowers today instead of the sansevieria that usually makes up her coiffure.

The orange tulips are blooming as are many camellias.  I've forgotten the orange tulip varieties I planted but one of them was 'Orange Queen'

Camellia japonica 'Scentsation' really does have a lovely fragrance.  Too bad some idiot planted it so far from the garden path that one has to traipse through a planting bed (literally tiptoeing through the tulips) to get a whiff.

Joining Lola are a couple of owls. What did you think I meant by hooters? This one, a Chinese cloisonné digital clock 

is joined by a Swedish glass paperweight.

Pink and orange are all the rage, right? 

In keeping with some of the arrangements at the NWFGS this year, and to acknowledge the Carmen Mirandaesque Lola, I threw in some fruit.

Who doesn't appreciate  a nice set of ...owls? 

Many thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for dreaming up IAVOM and for continuing to inspire us to  have fun with flowers.  Do click here to see what others have brought inside to enjoy this week.