Getting Back To Nature

This collection of flower and dandelion prints is proof that 
just like every cloud has its silver lining, every garden has its weeds.

Confession Time: My inner child is apparently a flower child.  Not entirely certain why or how that is, as that  there is very little about me that jives with the hippie movement (classic or modern-day interpretation,) but I find that the more time I spend out in the country, surrounded by nature and doing stuff like eating fresh-picked berries, fishing with a cane pole or just walking through fields, the more tempted I am to start making daisy chains and garlanding them around my head as I commune with nature.

That's usually around the time that I get bitten by some sort of bug, step in some poison ivy or realize that I've come down with a wicked case of sun poisoning, and then I want to get back in the car and find civilization ASAP.

Okay, so maybe my inner flower child is more about the aesthetics than the politics, but whatever--there's something about being out and about in nature that makes me want to stick flowering plants in my hair.  It just seems like a natural conclusion, and since I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one out there who's felt that way, I figured that maybe making a post of floral head decs might not be a bad idea.  Which is precisely what I am gonna do right now, starting with this:

Because dang it, you don't have to go to San Francisco to put flowers in your hair.  A crown of bluebells would probably work just about anywhere.

This floral headband was actually inspired by Billie Holiday, which makes it doubly awesome if you ask me.

Of course, if you prefer your floral cranial decorations to feature the real deal instead of silk, you can't go wrong with a circlet made of dried flowers.

Then again, there is something to be said for silk flowers.  Particularly if they come in crowns like this. Because if one row of flowers is good enough, than two rows is even better.

And finally, while it doesn't boast a flower, here's a cocktail hat made to resemble that staple of the natural world: grass.

Think of the tiny little ladybug as the cherry on the sundae.  It's pretty much the same thing.

And on that note, see you next week!