A Violet Easter

I adore violets!

Usually in full bloom by the end of March here,

this year they're just beginning.

R.H. snapped these last year,

getting close as a grasshopper.

His pictures make me want to paint a room violet.

They make me long for an Easter corsage of violets.

Why did corsages go out of fashion?

When I was growing up they were de regieur

for every special occasion.

My mother would have looked stunning in this

gray silk shantung taffeta suit in 1951.

She would have easily made it from the 

Vogue Design No. 7310.

The green hat by Irene would have been

perfect on her soft black hair.

And my father might have ordered
a violet corsage for her
instead of the usual orchid.

This photograph was taken c. 1959
of my beautiful mother.
She still is beautiful at 90.