So, I know, I know- you’re thinking- hey it’s Thursday not Tuesday- what gives?

Well on my walk to yoga this morning this image of flowers popped into my head. Why? Who knows. It’s not like there are any flowers spouting up in the mid-20s weather we’re having out here. Anyway it was this image:

Though (at the time) I couldn’t remember what the name of the flowers was so I figured “Hey! If Jeri’s there I’ll ask her!” (Jeri being Jeri Solomon of Jeri Solomon Floral Design who goes to the same yoga classes I do and makes the pretty arrangements at the front desk that I fawn over as well as arrangements for weddings/other businesses/open houses/and you if you contact her). Well it turns out I was really crossing the above image with this image:

Because I thought the flowers were red and I was calling the whole shbang “narcissus”, which we quickly realized was wrong but in my [limited] defense this image was across from the original poppies image in the magazine and in my old wedding notebook:

So I’ll just pretend I’m Rain Man or something and remembered that. Jeri’s guess (which based on what I was saying was a damn good guess) was “anemones” which I now covet more than any other flower and plan on tracking some down this summer to wear in my hair.

How sexy are these flowers?

Jeri said she has a friend who calls them the “Zha-Zha Garbor” of flowers because their so “LOOK AT ME”.

So, in conclusion the reason I said I though the flowers I was thinking of looked like poppies was because surprise- they were poppies! And the name I was trying to assign to them which reminded me of narcissus was ranunculus:

And I promise not to ask any crazy question like that again.

Image credits: Top 3 images (poppies, tulips and narcissus) are from (I believe) an old Brides Magazine circa 2007. The anemones is a Martha Stewart Weddings images and the ranunculus are from a Better Homes and Garden segment about creating bouquets for Mother Day.