Pentecost

In the Western church calendar today is Pentecost. Older readers may remember it was called Whitsun and there was a public bank holiday associated with it, replaced several decades ago with the secular-sounding and easier-to-understand Late Spring Bank Holiday. 
Red is the colour associated with this Sunday in many Church of England churches. Next Sunday is Trinity Sunday (white) then the Sundays after Trinity which will be green. The colours reflect the seasons of the church year. Anyway, enough of that!
The splendid flower arrangement in the church porch would have featured here had the colours been red and white, the white remembering Whitsun, but they didn’t. They were, rarely, red and an orangey yellow. At the display I had an interesting discussion with some flower arrangers about red and white being used together because they, and many others, don’t like that combination, as they think it has deathly associations. I don’t hold with such superstitions.
In the end this was what I decided upon, the red Bible markers on the lectern.