Shopping Lists

My shopping list for today in Boston:

• a lavender sachet
• rain boots
• apples
• toothpaste

 Not originally on my list:

• a purple striped Italian sweater
• an antique map
• a bundle of mountain firewood
• an apartment in Beacon Hill with “sun-splashed” bedroom and wood floors
• pink peonies flown in from Holland

image:  Vase de Pivoines (Vase of Peonies), oil on canvas painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1881, Honolulu Academy of Arts