There is no question about it...I have an obsession with hellebore every single season! There is something about it that captures me...a short lived love affair. The way the flower carries herself, shy...she hides her insides from us until you gently pick her up to observe the intense beauty within her. And the colors..I'm just mad for them! I decided to freeze a few to share my obsession and beauty with my friends.

 

Agrypnia; The inability to get to sleep.

My Awesome Words application never disappoints me. This word was the first word that came up today when I checked it...pretty much right on target for myself lately. Proposal after proposal after proposal. A jewelry order that has taken me two weeks to even start which is completely ridiculous and not my nature to avoid for so long. I think I'm honestly burnt out on the jewelry still and my focus has been the plants and flowers.                            

                                              This is how I've been feeling lately......
Eight more days and I will be reunited with family and friends in Massachusetts. Very much looking forward to frolicking in the forests finding wildflowers, visiting family farmhouses, finding new antiques to drag back to LA, eating food that isn't good for me, drinking bad coffee, fresh humid air, and the non-stop annoying sounds from the bull frogs in our pond. I miss it all!!

There is something about these Mobey Dick's that I am so amused by...the green hairy things that look like balls...





                              Inspiration for my new shoot that I'm super excited about.

In love with this series...

 


"She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself"-F.Scott Fitzgerald

   





I've been spending a lot of time at the greenhouses and gardens at the Arboretum. I've been obsessed with greenhouses since a child. We would go visit relatives that owned greenhouses near my grand-parents house and I was instantly in a trance when i stood in front of the closed doors. The moment I opened the doors I would look around nervously to make sure I was in their alone because I would be embarrassed by my own wild behavior once I was inside! A fun escape for a child that has certainly continued into adulthood. In the very near future my office will be a greenhouse...

Refinery 29 voted Luna Moss  as one of LA's top florist last week. I feel extremely grateful and am honored to be included in a group of great artists! There are times when you work really hard into a delirium from long hours that you start to feel under appreciated. There is so much work behind the scenes as a florist that other's just don't know about. So I thank Refinery 29 for good timing!! Here's the article...

Refinery 29

I need the sea for it teaches me...Pablo Neruda



It's been months since I've made a post. I've been so busy with weddings, events, jewelry orders and to add to my non-stop schedule I'm volunteering at an orchid and carnivorous greenhouse. It's all very rewarding but I'm burnt out.

sold to Scarlett Johansson

I miss home especially in the spring when wild orchids start popping through our woods and cute bluebirds are chilling on my uncles gargoyle...this happens in our backyard...

Zizz; to sparkle Tim Walker for Love magazine...my hero and forever inspiration. I've posted some pictures in the past done by photographer Kirsty Mitchell but today I'm just obsessed! Every single photograph invokes this nostalgia.