love and callas

Happy Love Thursday, everyone. Before I get into Love Thursday, a couple of housekeeping items:

1. I'm so positively thrilled at all the kind blog pink lotus flowers that are sprinkled all over the web now -- thank you so much. Several of you have expressed an interest in having a sort of "Kind Blog blogroll," and I think that's a splendid idea. So, if you wouldn't mind, if you've added the lotus flower to your site, please send me an e-mail to let me know you did, with the link to your site, and subject line "blogroll me!" Once I return from NYC this weekend, I'll do my best to add a blogroll onto the Kind Blog site, so you can peruse kind blogs to your hearts' content -- sound like a plan? (For easy reference, e-mail is chookooloonksATgmailDOTcom.)

2. Thanks also for your lovely words about Alex -- you guys made me feel so much better. I've pretty much decided that I'm not going to worry about it too much -- she's young, and she's doing fine.

Okay, then! On to Love Thursday:

When I was planning my wedding (the white one, not the first "elope-y" one), I decided that I wanted the day to have a decidedly Caribbean feel, particularly since we were getting married in London, far away from Trinidad. Our wedding was tiny -- only 30 people -- and I wanted it to feel intimate, and warm and tropical. For my bouquet, I wanted tropical flowers; however, many of the flowers I wanted weren't in season. "How about calla lillies?" the florist suggested. "They're quite tropical, and by the time your wedding happens, they'll be pretty easy to come by."

Though I hadn't considered callas before, I fell in love with them -- so much so, in fact, that when Marcus and I rushed to get married 2 months before our set wedding date (all the better to get him a visa to the U.S., or so we thought), I returned to the florist, and had them throw together a small bouquet, including callas. The day after our "elope-y" wedding, I placed the small bouqet in a vase, and placed it in a sunny spot. Marcus saw it, and pulled out his charcoals, and quickly did this:

This lily now hangs on our bedroom wall. And although this is one of the cruder of Marcus' artwork, I love this sketch, because it reminds me of our first wedding day, and its spontaneity, and the beautiful callas.

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As always, please share your links of love in the comments below, and your images in the Love Thursday Flickr pool. Also, don't forget to check out the Love Is All Around site for more beautiful images, as well.

May your day be full of love.

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Comments

[Pass the Torch]

That's so beautiful! Now if I "pulled out my charcoals" I wouldn't end up with anything like that;)

My Love Thursday post is about learning

http://2passthetorch.com/2006/11/15/love-is-learning/

[The Wooden Porch]

That is so sweet! My Hubs can't draw a stick figure. :-)

Mine is almost done. Come and see it. I'm blogging about the day my daughter became a sister.

http://thewoodenporch.blogspot.com/

[Karen]

Beautiful picture, I love it!

My Love Thursday post is about the 'sick baby' pretend games my girls have been playing. Got some nice pictures out of it.

http://o-scientist.blogspot.com/2006/11/love-is_15.html

Happy Love Thursday!

Karen

[Thida]

A photo of my baby son that inspires me. I hope it inspires you too.
http://waterowl.blogspot.com/2006/11/laughing-in-hospital.html

[gunky]

in the spirit of being kind, i'm branching out to my in-laws . . . happy LT to all!

http://gunky.typepad.com/gunky/2006/11/nana_papa.html

[Natalee]

Mine is about my love for my husband, from the day of our wedding, and for the rest of our lives:

http://justgottahangon.blogspot.com/2006/11/love-song.html

(Love your wedding day story, btw!)

[amanda]

I wouldn't call it crude. That artwork is alive and full of energy.

My entry for this week is here:

http://the-cat-lady.com/?p=120

[Kelly]

HLT!!!
Here is my LT for the week ---

http://kelly.typepad.com/kelly/2006/11/love_thursday_1.html

My boys with their newborn baby sister :)

[Mir]

Hmmmmm not sure why my trackback isn't working. Hmph. Here ya go. http://wouldashoulda.com/2006/11/16/love-thursday-angels/

Safe travels on your trip, my friend.

[Kay]

I'm up as well. Love the picture.

http://everydaykay.blogspot.com/2006/11/love-thursday-8.html

[Dea]

I'm sorry that I don' thave a picture for your love thursday, I keep thinking about it and then it passes, (the day not the thought) anyhow I wanted to thank you 'casue I also had 2 weddings and I never knew how to explain them: the little one and the big one, the marriage and the wedding, the January one and the June one, it's just awkward, but I like the elope-y one and the white one, it's so much more eloquent.
thanks!

[Femtastic]

I will forever envy the artists. How they do what they do...

Here's my LT for this week. A schmaltzy homage to my fallen roomie.

http://unlikelyinlove.blogspot.com/2006/11/for-her-i-buried-many-squirrel-butts.html

[Dawn]

Happy Love Thursday. Mine's up.

http://www.clunybrown.com/archives/60

[KidKate]

Here's mine, coincidentally also from our tiny (23 people), calla-adorned wedding, though not of the bride and groom:

http://kidkate.typepad.com/kidkate/2006/11/hugging_cousins.html

[laura]

How thoughtful of him. He just kept the moment forever.
Today my Thursday Love is about the Love my children have for Nappies (comfort cloths). Sounds strange? Come and see.
http://soleflor-en.blogspot.com/2006/11/love-thursday-love-for-nappies.html

[Pastormac's Ann]

Simply beautiful - your story and the photo of your precious flower that is always a bloom.

For this week I have Belated Birthday Love to my son.

http://itsalwaysaproduction.blogspot.com/2006/11/love-thursday-11.html

[meredith]

What a beautiful drawing!

I love the snow, sometimes :), here's mine. I do like the idea of a kind blog, when I get the pink lotus added, I'll let you know.
Happy Love Thursday.

http://poppyinprovence.blogspot.com/2006/11/frosty-love.html

[abeni]

Love is a hug and some wide smiles

http://hairoun.blogspot.com/2006/11/love-is_116365210699710084.html

[wetnoses]

Love is seeing a tiny baby grow up. I love the kind blog idea and we will be adding the pink lotus! :) We love your blog. Can we do that next week?

http://wetnoses.blogspot.com/2006/11/love-thursday.html

[Karen Rani]

I love that sketch, Karen, and what it means to you.

Today I blogged about my love for a certain person who steals things and calls me names:
http://www.troll-baby.com/2006/11/16/i-heart-dr-gregory-house/

[Sassy]

That is wonderful! What a great piece of artwork to bring back such lovely memories! Happy Love Thursday!
http://ohmygawdreally.blogspot.com/2006/11/lovegood-vibrations.html

[MamaDuck]

Awwww, that is just a beautiful thing, even on its own but especially for the love that went into it. Happy Love Thursday!

http://lilduckduck.com/love-is-cars/416

[el-e-e]

Happy Love Thursday! I love having artwork that's meaningful like your callas.

Mine entry's about my sister:
http://helloself.blogspot.com/2006/11/sister-love.html

[Leigh]

What a nice story.

My submission for Love Thurs.

http://shootingmomma.blogspot.com/2006/11/intensity.html

[Ninotchka]

I LOVE calla lilies and after reading this and seeing that beautiful artwork, I love them even more. :)

Here's my LT for this week:

http://ninotchka.squarespace.com/cease-cows-life-is-short/2006/11/16/love-thursday-still-falling.html