{"id":1078,"date":"2009-11-11T08:12:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:01:51","slug":"artichoke-arrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/11\/artichoke-arrangement\/","title":{"rendered":"Artichoke Arrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some things only appear to be coincidental when, I believe, they are not. It&#8217;s been a year since my good friend&#8217;s husband, <a title=\"Previous posts on Nathaniel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=976\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nathaniel<\/a>, has passed away. This happens to be on my mother&#8217;s birthday. She happened to write a wonderful blog post on <a title=\"Artichoke Toute Seul\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/archives\/1395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artichokes<\/a> last Friday on our <a title=\"Slipcovers for Your Walls blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slipcovers for Your Walls<\/a> blog. Artichokes happened to be some of Nathaniel&#8217;s favorite foods. We commented at a dinner once that we both liked them when others did not. I&#8217;ve always liked the way they looked so I painted one for a <a title=\"casart Botanicals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/botanicals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">casart coverings<\/a>. I decided to prepare an artful arrangement of artichokes for Liza and her four kids. Unlike traditional flowers, they could actually eat these. I happened to include my mother&#8217;s blog post, which just happened to have the recipe for cooking artichokes. Liza is a great cook and certainly didn&#8217;t need this but I thought the timeliness of this was too uncanny. She did cook them and she invited us over for dinner, then we used the flowers to place on Nathaniel&#8217;s grave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/11\/artichokes_artiseverywhere.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1079\" title=\"artichokes_artiseverywhere\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/11\/artichokes_artiseverywhere.jpg\" alt=\"Artichoke Arrangement. Photo by C. Ashley Spencer\" width=\"289\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/artichokes_artiseverywhere.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/artichokes_artiseverywhere-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh, the artichoke flower happens to represent the blossoming of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things only appear to be coincidental when, I believe, they are not. It&#8217;s been a year since my good friend&#8217;s husband, Nathaniel, has passed away. This happens to be on my mother&#8217;s birthday. She happened to write a wonderful blog post on Artichokes last Friday on our Slipcovers for Your Walls blog. Artichokes happened to be some of Nathaniel&#8217;s favorite foods. We commented at a dinner once that we both liked them when others did not. I&#8217;ve always liked the way they looked so I painted one for a casart coverings. I decided to prepare an artful arrangement of artichokes for Liza and her four kids. Unlike traditional flowers, they could actually eat these. I happened to include my mother&#8217;s blog post, which just happened to have the recipe for cooking artichokes. Liza is a great cook and certainly didn&#8217;t need this but I thought the timeliness of this was too uncanny. She did cook them and she invited us over for dinner, then we used the flowers to place on Nathaniel&#8217;s grave. 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