December 6, 2012-- oh, my

Oh, my. This is a total mess, and almost impossible to explain. The photo is worse than what's actually in the windowsill. Today I noticed that a winter squash on the back porch was rotting in an interesting way (a perfect circle was forming on its flesh), so I cut that part out of the squash. This made it look like a birdhouse gourd. Later in the day, I was weeding a flower bed and wound up with some rooted ivy I'd pulled  out. It seemed to want to be planted in the circle I'd excavated in the squash. Hence, what you see. Terrible photo, but I'm too tired to improve it.