Although i would NEVER live in a small town, Bold's is the epitome of everything good about small…read moretowns.
SOoooo..It's mother's day, and i'm a bad daughter--
with the time change and night shift, I wake up and it's 3pm there and i haven't called or sent flowers.
uhhh, internet to the rescue!
I found 3 florists who looked great on the internet, but were closed (because everything closes on a sunday in small towns--true in holland, true in pennsylvania!). Then, through the yellow pages, Bold's jumped out at me! My friend Nicole worked there in high school, they actually know how to get to my mom's isolated down-a-dirt-road house..
So I called Bold's--not only were they open, she remembered me from 15 years ago, asked how my little sister was, and what I've "been up to"..
She told me they'd get gorgeous flowers tomorrow, she could wait, put something "simple and sweet" with the irises and daisies in stock, or she could deliver to her a hanging plant. She suggested a hanging indoor herb garden, since my mom loves to cook (now really, could you get that in a city?! SHE KNOWS MY MOM LIKES HERBS!!), and when I asked if they had anything with hummingbird-attractive plants, it turns out that they had a pot with mixed flowers that my mom's favorite birds love! Yup, undying love's the way to go!
With delivery, came to about $50, which any banal internet florist would've gotten out of me too.
Of course, at the end I got the standard Honesdale
"'So you really never married?! No children, nothing?!"
I told her I'm a confirmed bachelor.
PS: my moedertje LOVES the flowers, and so do the hummingbirds.