Mock orange: also inheriting the earth. This overgrown one, with its starry white flowers, is quite the situation.
I took that photo either Holy Saturday or Easter Sunday, I can't remember which. Today is overcast and soft, though it's supposed to warm up a good bit. Not complaining in the least. Right now it's foggy, and we have storms in the forecast: not a bad thing. Water my garden, rain!
I still need to buy summer vegetable plants and put them in, and some more seeds. AND soil to fill some more containers. I've got empty pots just sitting out there waiting for something to fill them. Maybe later today, when I've finished an essay or two . . .
Wearing today:
*Wool& Fiona dress (M) in Teal, bought November 2022, last worn --- good grief! --- February 4, I think. Wears in 2025: 4
*Secondhand Birk Mayaris, year 2
OK, so it's been a minute since I last wore this dress: I wore it twice while I was in New Hampshire in early February, and then --- apparently --- not again until now.
One thing I notice, looking back over my photo album, is that I did wear both my Aegean Teal Maggie and my currently-for-sale Ocean Teal Willow dress multiple times . . . I think because a) I wanted to wear teal, and b) I felt that I ought to be wearing those dresses. When I look back at these photos, I like the look of myself in those dresses considerably less than I like the look of myself in this dress. It seems to me that if I feel like wearing a teal knit dress, I should reach for the dress I actually look and feel better in.
Anyway, cue my lament that Wool& has discontinued this dress design. It's one I was skeptical about and was never going to own --- now I own two and wish I had more. I'm sorry I didn't jump on a plum-colored one while those were available. Ditto burgundy. But I have this one and one in Marine Blue, and I'm glad I do have them.
People reviewing this dress have often complained that it looked "frumpy," a word whose meaning I feel I really can't grasp. Maybe I'm just a frumpy person? Because I love the fit of this dress? It just feels so effortlessly graceful and lovely --- body-honoring without being body-revealing. I like it with tights and boots, but I love it just worn basically, not really styled at all, as I'm wearing it today. Again, this is the dress a complete stranger remarked on, passing me on the greenway path as I was walking the dog a couple of years ago: "That's a gorgeous dress!" I mean, yes. Yes, it is. What is not to love about this dress?
ETA: Well, I could smooth out my bralette underneath . . . I had pulled one strap off to the side for some reason, which made it pucker weirdly under the bodice of my dress. But that's an easy fix. One problem of having narrow shoulders is that necklines are sometimes wider on me than they might be on another person, and then we have bra-strap-visibility going on . . . I could also have solved this by wearing a bralette in a color that would read as an accent, but alas, today I did not do that. Still --- I ask again, what is not to love about this dress?
And now I'm going to accessorize it tastefully with a weighted vest and walk the dog again.