Sweet Peas and Summer flowers

Simmy took a little break from writing her novel to go hang up some laundry. The sun was high in the sky, and the heat of it would have the clothes dried in no time at all.

The colourful sweet peas drew her attention and she clipped all the ones that were blooming and put them in a small green votive that she had purchased from Ten Thousand Villages.

I was light- hearted,

And many pleasures to my vision started;

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight:

And taper fingers catching at all things,

To bind them all about with tiny rings.

Keats

She put them on the shelf of her work room, which Sam had painted up real spiffy. The paint on the right wall is a mistint of Dorian Gray and the left wall is a paint Simmy mixed from a few different ones until she liked the cooler gray tones meeting the warmer ones.
The purple picture frame, a 10 cent bargain from a 'Dutch Dime Store,' cooperated and sat solidly on the black lacquered shelf without falling over.
"Now, that's what I'd call 'being on the level.'"