It's Not Your Mother's Color Wheel

Featuring: Kevin Ylvisaker AIFD

Neon, day-glo and fluorescent are everywhere! The colors of the 60s are back and they are just as groovy as ever. So, how does today's successful floral artist use these bold expressions and who is the target market? Well, let down your hair, open your mind and get ready for a thrilling flight. Kevin piloted attendees through the skies on a trip that took them back to the future.

 

(Program underwritten through a grant from Teleflora.)

 

 

 

How Did We Survive?

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would rid in cars with no seatbelts or airbags. Riding in the back of a pick-up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared one soft drink with four friends from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streelights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were okay. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scaps and then rie down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's Xboxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

This generation has produced some of the best risk takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure success and responsibility, and we learn HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!