July 30, 2012 -- trumpet vine

This is just a pretty piece of trumpet vine dropped into a glass vase. The mouth of the vase was too wide for this thin, single stem to stand upright, the way I wanted it to, so I supported it with a squash stem I'd picked yesterday.

I hadn't meant to pick this branching squash stem when I picked squash yesterday, but it came off with one of the squashes. I clipped the big leaves off and saved the branching stem in water just because I thought its shape was interesting. Had no idea I'd be using it today as a crutch!