May 10, 2012 -- big things

Oh, my. I kid you not. This is seriously beautiful. I passed by this massive clutch of peony blossoms for days thinking "too bad only John, the cat, and I are seeing this." I realized tomorrow it would start falling apart (one flower in the bunch has already lost petals), so I decided to cut it (all the blooms are on one stem), put it in a bottle, and photograph it on the windowsill. Then, thinking big, I decided to cut something else amazing me by its size in the garden--a Swiss chard leaf. Here I've sort of propped it up against the peony stem. Too bad you can see a black, upside-down plastic bucket drying on the railing outside the window!