December 3, 2012 -- Lenten rose roots + leaf

Somehow, while I was gardening, I pulled up a hellebore plant and didn't notice it in my discard pile until late in the day. Too pretty to throw away, so I put it in this bottle. Its roots and leaves appealed to me. Then I added a little satellite "arrangement"-- tinier hellebore leaf with red maple leaf added. The realy payoff of all this was the shadows on the windowsill tonight.

This looked  mighty pretty in the daytime, too. And the red leaf is the same one I used in my arrangment Nov. 9. (red leaf in box of test tubes).