July 4, 2012 -- flowers for the fourth

These will be table decorations later today. There's a tomato sitting on the lip of one vase and the other vase is filled with tomatoes (but they're not sitting in water; there's a tube nestled among the tomatoes to hold water for the flowers). There's basil, Queen Anne's lace, a gloriosa daisy, and some fennel in each vase, but I've discovered the fennel wants to wilt even though I cut it early this morning when it was way cooler than it is now.

Oh, and the wacky outlier flower in each vase (a bomb bursting in air!) is a garlic flower.  In the photo, this second vase looks more off kilter that it really is.