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community members are scouring yard sales and antique shops for unique and intriguing ways to display nature’s bounty of flowers, leaves, twigs, and branches.
“The more interesting the better for vases and containers”, says Judy Tble, “we can use everything but plastic and clear glass. And it doesn’t need to be something everyone thinks of as a vase. We make flower arrangement in teapots, on saucers and plates, on the tops of candlesticks, and inside seashells.”
The drying and arranging of flowers is a time consuming, but fulfilling task. Arrangers work in Trinity House and, after Sept. 22, in the Church Hall. All interesting community members are invited to come, learn how it’s done, and be a part of the preparations.
All the hard work will be visible on Saturday and Sunday of the tour weekend, when the finished products are displayed for sale. Beauty, ingenuity, drama and humor are all captured by the arrangers’ skill, and the resulting display is truly breathtaking.
Since the first sale, when current “chief arranger” Lois Snead began working 46 years ago, thousands and thousands of arrangements have been sold, and their value is a tribute to nature, science and human talent. Nature because her generous bounty is an inspiration and blessing, science because that knowledge helps us preserve that bounty, and human talent because the discerning eye and feel for color makes beauty out of what appear to be piles of paper thin petals, and discarded containers.
As September slips into October, the final preparations for the House Tour include getting hosts and hostesses for the rooms in the tour houses, putting up signage for directions and for parking at the homes, and arranging for the cakes, cookies and sandwiches needed for the tea.
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