Rooting through an old folder I discovered this postcard of the Philadelphia Flower Show. It must be at least 20 years old as the show was still at the old -now demolished- Civic Center in University City. Those were the days of the escalator that brought the crowds down from the icky winter weather into a magic realm of fragrance and color. Nobody who experienced it will ever forget it. Little did I suspect then that one day I'd be the Chair of Competitive Classes or that my garden club would win the first perfect score in the history of the Flower Show. Which reminds me... I must keep on rooting around to find the pictures of that great exhibit "El Patio de Carmelita" and share it here. And the little green shed that appears on this postcard? It's still the background, after all these years, of the Tulip Society's exhibit. Year after year. Never changing and always different. That's the power of flowers.
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