Witte rododendrons met druifjes (White Rhododendrons with Grapes)

A loose bouquet of white rhododendron blooms, blushed with pink buds, fills a plain glass vase, sprigs of blue grape hyacinth threaded through and one cluster fallen to the green cloth below. The petals are carried in the faintest warm and cool whites, the hardest of all things to hold. A cut bouquet at its fullest, with the quiet reminder that it will not keep.