ranunculus - a study

the ranunculus is one of our favourite spring flowers, 

with delicate paper like petals in many shades,

and with a surprisingly long vase life.

Helen of Lilac and Lily has a most beautiful and interesting blog, 

and I was so inspired when I can across the images from Krista Keltanen

 of pastel shaded ranunculus, that I just could not resist taking some images of the ranunculus 

that we had delivered this week.

the images on Helen's blog are exquisite - go see for yourself and you too will be hooked