This weekend was beyond wonderful. Here in Minnesota, the weather was beautiful and the snow is almost gone.
Sadly, one of the reasons it was so fantastic was at the expense of my best friend (I’ll call her Beth). On Friday, she got some awful news: Our company’s IT group deleted all of her saved e-mail. This was after she had specifically requested – in writing – that they burn a CD, just in case. Hundreds of e-mails with unrecoverable information, GONE. Beth was very, very upset. As an apology, the IT managers bought her some gorgeous flowers: a small but elegant arrangement that included four tiger lillies. On Friday night, she stopped by and gave me the flowers. “I can’t stand to look at them.”
All weekend long, my house was filled with the lillies’ perfume. We had our windows open and gentle breezes wafted through our house… It felt like May.
I don’t think I’ll ever smell lillies again without remembering this weekend.