Paul became the first man at Shadybrook to join in the flower arranging!   And he had some definite talent.  Sarah, Betty and Violet also helped.  We had flowers from a wedding at Homewood and they were created by Shady Grove Florist.  They were so colorful and unusual! We also received flowers from a wedding at Lake Eden, put together by the Bloom Room.  Here we had a lot of gorgeous orchids to work with.  The colors were great!  There were so many flowers that the residents had never seen before.  They all wanted the names of them, but I wasn’t much help.

It was very touching to have Paul helping out.  He doesn’t speak clearly, but he was definitely able to communicate his enjoyment.  After we had a cart full of flowers we all went around to hand out the arrangements to each of the residents’ rooms.  Paul took charge of wielding the cart down the halls and everyone helped hand them out.