O’Neill: Flowers are magic, transient, a balm and a promise for the future

Casey O’Neill is a farmer and owner of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mendocino Voice. If you’d like to write your own column for The Mendocino Voice, send your idea to [email protected].

I have awakened in a friend’s cottage in Sebastopol after a late-ish night for a farmer. We finished loading flowers from a wedding last night at ten and then drove the short ride from Bodega Bay back to the cottage, grateful for such a sweet place to lay our heads down. The experience was a culmination of almost a year of work by Amber, from early conversations to planning to producing the flowers and creating the arrangements for the wedding.