a soft palette

still reaching for the dried botanicals, while we climb out of our sub-zero temps here in the north. i liked the soft palette suggested by this collection of faded summer. i am especially fond of the blue flower in the center, which i am assuming is a hyacinth. something about that blue with the brown, and the filigreed tips of the dried petals makes me think of nobility. a brocade royal waistcoat. the imagination does funny things after 10 months of quarantining.