Pressed Wildflowers From Greece

This time last year we touring Greece. 

Shh! Don't tell customs! But as we traveled along place to place, I picked whatever wildflowers I passed by and put them between the pages of whatever travel guide I was holding in my hands. 

I finally pulled all my travel guides from the shelf, gently removed all the dried, pressed flowers, and arranged them into frames so that I could display them in our home. 

After picking two sprigs of lavender from a bush near the water clock in the Ancient Roman Agora in Athens and placing them inside the book and putting that book inside my bag, I would often catch the scent of lavender for the rest of the trip; I didn't need perfume; Those two sprigs were so potent they created a cloud of lavender scent around me for the rest of the trip. 

That dried lavender still smelled divine and as I handled it to place it in the frames, so I was carried right back in my memory to moments of our trip.

These frames of flowers will make a beautiful keepsake and reminder of our adventure.