I love pleasant surprises, but one of my favorite spring and summer time surprises are ditch bouquets. I have to admit, my husband does a wonderful job of loving me, and even though these flowers are penniless they are just as beautiful and thoughtful as the $5 Friday flowers from our local flower shop that he sometimes gets in the wintertime. So what are they?... He takes the long way home and looks for fresh wildflowers to pick. Many of them are along the road and sometimes in the ditch. When he see some, he stops and picks them until he has enough for a small bouquet. He trims them, and then puts them in a vase on the table to enjoy. Its the random thoughtfulness that I love. He doesn't do this every week, but just enough so that I still get giddy when I first see that he's picked them for me.
