Boundary Street in Bloom

Every day, twice a day, I walk past these planters on my street, which live on the sidewalk beside a house. They were always very green, but lean on blooms. Finally, the other day I walked past to this wonderful sight:

I love gardenias! I have to admit that they taunted me for the next few days - i kept imaging these pretty blooms sitting on my bedside table, but I resisted my floral kleptomanic tenancies, and left them for everyone to enjoy. A couple of days later they were gone. I like to think that the owners of the house they sit in front of took them, but I'm not always convinced. 

Christmas in Bloom

I'm not feeling very Christmasy this year, but these little pressie for some of my buddies gave me a small, if unsustained, jolt of festive. They are for my friends who live on my street, so I went around and stole street flowers for the arrangements. That's ok right?