Saturday, April 26, 2008

We will open Spirited Wine & Art (www.spiritedwineandart.com) this week.  I am nervous--and excited.  I am happy--and a little wistful.  I am also sick with whatever I escaped from contracting over the winter:  headache, body aches, coughing, sore throat, and a fever that peaked somewhere around 102.4.  I'm actually feeling much better than earlier this week, especially since we've had sunshine for two whole days. 

While huddled on the couch Tuesday or Wednesday, a Haagen Dazs commercial caught my eye.  It was opera and drama, a bee and flower trying to reach one another.  I'd heard about the honeybee crisis, but all of a sudden the impact of it reached my head.  Haagen Dazs says that 80% of its products rely on honeybee-pollinated ingredients, like almonds, peanuts, raspberries, peaches, etc.  "Help us help them." 

The website, www.haagendazs.com has an informative and clever link that is worth seeing.  This isn't about ice cream (though my all-time favorite is HD's Mayan Chocolate.)  If the world is going green, it won't happen without bees.  I sought out tulips yesterday and can't imagine spring without flowers.  The importance of the issue can't be overestimated.  Please check out the site.  

My "Spring Unveiling" show is, coincidentally, titled "Wild Flowers" (flowers that are just a little crazy.)  A percentage from the sales of any flower prints and cards will be donated to helping the bees.