Flower Frogs

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by Tamora Kane

There are many people that dislike second hand stores and garage or rummage sales. I am not a person that spends much time going to garage sales, however when I do stop at one I usually go through the glassware as well as vases. This is the section in the second hand store that I check out also. There are many times when I find unique glass bowls, glasses and vases that I use when entertaining.

One day I was on my way home from the grocery store when I was forced to take a detour due to road construction. I decided to take a short cut through a residential neighborhood to get back to the street we live on. An older home that I have thought looks quite interesting was having a yard sale. I thought I would stop to see what they had. There was one table with glassware on it that I was looking through. I noticed that there was another table that was full of vases. On the table with the vases were several flower frogs. They were in different sizes and shapes and were all made of glass. I had two flower frogs that my mother had given to me, but these were beautiful. Flower frogs are round or oval shaped with holes in them that are put in the bottom of bowls or flat vases to stand flower stems in. With flower frogs you can basically turn any container into a base for a flower arrangement.

Bit of History

The spring over there takes you by the throat, the flowers blooming by the thousands over white walls. If you strolled around for an hour in the hills surrounding my town, you would return with the odor of honey in your clothes.

—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

The old woman at the sale saw me looking at the flower frogs and came over to talk to me. She asked me if I knew what they were for. I explained that my mother had used them and that I love to arrange flowers so I was familiar with their use. She showed me one that was close to a foot long and four inches high. It was made of glass and studded with holes through the surface to allow many flowers to be arranged in it. The glass was green in color. None of the flower frogs had prices marked on them. I told the woman that they were very beautiful and that I wanted to buy at least one, but I needed to know the price. She said that she had not priced them because she wanted them to go to someone that knew what they were and would use them. She said she loved arranging flowers and she wanted her frogs to go to someone else that shared this passion. She told me that I could have all the flower frogs for ten dollars. I knew this was not enough money, but she insisted. She packed up nine frogs for me. I think of her every time I arrange flowers.

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