lesser celandine in Libby's vase

Libby Johnson, whom I met in West Virginia last weekend, made this vase, which is really, really fun to use. Three little tubes of different heights in a saucer that holds water and allows the water up into the tubes. Pretty nifty. I've filled it with a weed from my yard--lesser celandine, I think.

well-traveled arrangement

I may not be the prettiest arrangement on the East Coast, but I may be the best traveled. I was created in Ashland, Virginia, then traveled to a talk on Windowsill Art in Norfolk, then traveled back to Ashland, then traveled to Lewisburg, West Virginia for another talk. It's now almost ten days since my chartreuse euphorbia flowers were cut, and they're still looking perky. I'm mighty glad to be back home on my Ashland windowsill.

 

pansies with lilac

I'm almost sure this arrangement, made from leftovers that won't be traveling to Norfolk, is "informed" by a watercolor class I took a couple of weekends ago. Learned so much!

colorful mahonia leaf with tulip

I'm packing up for a Windowsill Art talk in Norfolk tomorrow and the dining room table is full of windowsill arrangements. This is one that probably won't travel well, so I decided to photograph it. Love the color of mahonia leaves at this time of year! One, in Buckhingham, is so red I keep thinking it's a cardinal in the bushes when I spot it across the yard. This one, though, is sort of yellow-green. If this arrangement makes it to Norfolk without falling apart, I'll tease the tulip open farther.

silver maple helicopters

Found these helicopters on the ground under my neighbor's silver maple. So gorgeous and so big! Gathered them up into a bouquet-like bunch and dropped them into a vase already on the windowsill.

white money plant

Very little damage from frost last night. Certainly didn't affect the white money plant, some of which I picked and brought in this morning.

cover it up or bring it in!

This is cover-it-up or bring-it-in weather! Nice and sunny, but really windy and cold outside. I've left covers on my tender veggies, brought seedlings inside (even for the day), and moved geraniums from the back porch to a sunny indoor table. In the process, this geranium bloom broke off. It's from a plant I grew from a cutting last fall and carried through the winter--a plant that, after months of pampering, I'm determined not to lose to frost.