Even today, most collectors prefer pieces with the colorful, hand-painted bouquets of roses, violets, tulips, cornflowers and forget-me-nots.

He also makes dried-flower arrangements, huge baskets of roses and colorful mixed bouquets, expensive but long lasting.

Most had immaculate front lawns gently sloping to the sidewalk, the carefully painted houses bordered with colorful bouquets of flowers or well tended gardens containing plants and bushes of varying varieties.

Gordon Frey and Tim Mannion arrived, spending about an hour creating two large, loose, colorful bouquets.

Doris Needham asked the half-dozen relatives clustered around the memorial to her daughter, Rebecca Anderson, piled high with eight colorful bouquets, a potted plant, a snow globe with an angel and, almost inevitably, a teddy bear.

Or go for a cylinder constructed of warm goat cheese, a zippy tomato dressing glossing a colorful bouquet of lettuces and a wrap of herbed bread.

Crocheted flowers decorated some sweaters; colorful bouquets were knitted into others.

The ticket features a drawing of a colorful and sunny bouquet of flowers and the words "Mother's Day," in bright yellow letters, above the timeless sentiment "Win Up to $300,000!"

Rima Fujita, a painter who wore a short lavender dress, black cropped sweater, green leather jacket, red wristwatch and fishnet stockings and stood out like a colorful bouquet of tulips, said she didn't believe in chance encounters.

"For you," he said, handing the child a colorful bouquet.