January 25, 2007 ~ Mommy Pot

SS=1/80, f/2.5, ISO=400, 50mm

SS= 1/80, f/0(reversed lens), ISO=200, 50mm

Okay admit it...how many of you thought I was talking about something else :) These pictures are of one of my favorite gifts from my baby shower. It is a Mommy Pot, a beautiful clay vase about 2 inches tall. It came with a little tag that says, The Mommy Pot...For the short-stemmed flowers children bring home. It was given to me by a friend I met in graduate school named Kara. I remember when I got it I couldn't wait until the first time I could use it. Luckily my son has always loved to bring me flowers (and weeds, and leaves and blades of grass...you get the idea) so it has gotten many uses. The flower of choice for my 5 year old is the dandelion. He loves finding them and presenting them to me as if they were the most expensive, most beautiful flowers he has ever come across, and to me ...they are. I happened to notice the other day that one lone dandelion was still in my Mommy Pot, left over from last summer. Only now it is what my son calls a Wish Flower. Many wishes have been made on these puffy white weeds (which is probably why we always have so many dandelions). I haven't shown my son this leftover Wish Flower yet...I have to think up a good wish first ;)