April 29, 2012 -- gardening

This photo evokes a day for me. While pruning some dead wood out of a Mahonia, I accidently cut off a live, growing tip -- a beautiful growing tip. So I carried it inside and dropped it into a bottle. Later, while pinching back violas, there was one stem I just couldn't throw away because its two flowers were so pretty. They, too, went into a bottle in the windowsill.

What I really like in this photo, though, is something I hadn't really meant to be photographing: it's my gloves hanging over the water spigot, after I'd rinsed them out!