At my age flowers scare me. ~George Burns

Friday,  February 26

Tomorrow is a big day.  For my mom.  It’s her birthday, and she is turning 89.  To mark the occasion, my sister and her husband have traveled here from Switzerland to help celebrate.

So if you see two people lurking around Lansdale with backpacks and binoculars, do not be alarmed!  I repeat, do not be alarmed!  They are merely Swiss bird watching enthusiasts.  Do not try and feed them, as our exotic diet does not appeal to them.  One is a vegetarian, and the other refuses to eat cheese.  Yes, someone from Switzerland who refuses to eat cheese.  Seems wrong somehow, no?

So what do you get an 89 year old for her birthday?  She has forbidden presents.  But flowers always work.  So I’m off to my favorite flower shop:  Chantilly Floral Boutique on West Main Street.

Chantilly Floral Boutique

Marcelene Cox once said, "Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires." Perhaps my sister and I should duke it out to see which one of us is facing the wrong way!

Chantilly is so much more than a flower shop, but I go there for the flowers.  Because they make amazing arrangements.  And my mother does love flowers.

Margie Booz

But I also go for another thing.  Margie Booz.  While her kids now run the business, Margie can almost always be found at the shop.  Margie is one of those people who you would love to kidnap and keep for yourself if it wasn’t illegal and downright creepy.  No. No kidnapping!  Margie needs to be shared with all of Lansdale.

Did you know that Margie was chosen this past holiday season to travel to Washington to help decorate the White House for Christmas?  Her talents put her in that elite group.  We are lucky to have her here in Lansdale, PA!

Margie has worked tirelessly in the past on various civic events like the Holiday House Tour.  If there were a Mrs. Lansdale award, Margie would win it.  We need more business owners and citizens like Margie Booz.

While her son Charles is usually found up at their Harleysville store, you can almost always find daughter Barbara at the Lansdale store.  The genes in the Booz family run deep – both Charles and Barbara are wonderful people, too.

Chantilly is so much more than flowers.  Perhaps things I’m not in the market for, but they do have a wonderful selection of woman’s fashion clothing and accessories, and lots of great jewelry.  If you haven’t been to Chantilly Floral Boutique, you’re missing out on one of the nicest stores in town.  Truly, if every store in Lansdale looked as good as Chantilly, both inside and out, we would have one of the most beautiful towns in Pennsylvania.

But I was here for flowers.  And remembered what Delta Burke once said.  "If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!"  So I got an arrangement.

So, stop into Chantilly and say hello to Margie.  But remember, no kidnapping!

Lansdale Shopping Score:  1

So the recap:

ONE opportunity to shop/eat in Lansdale met.

Let’s see what today brings!