Aug. 10, 2011--with and without sunflowers

I separated yesterday's flowers into three smaller bunches and dropped them into some plastic cups (first photo). I'd never used these cups as vases before, but I think their watermelon motif and color works well with the zinnias. More interesting, though, is how adding some small sunflowers to these three arrangements perked them up. Their yellow is like an alarm--waking the other flowers up. And I like the fact that these puny sunflowers--way small because they've been poorly grown (by me)--are just the right size for these arrangements (second photo).