December 7, 2012 -- squash with ivy, carnations

I woke up this morning liking my squash filled with ivy better than I did last night. (And I already loved the way this had evolved: reaming out rotten place in the squash providing nesting place for ivy I had weeding out.) Well, this morning's chores yielded another plant material: carnation flowers leftover from long ago. I had left a bucket of them on the back porch, through many frosts, and half of them were dead but half still looked remarkably good, so I spent a while culling through them to salavage the survivors. So squash, ivy, and carnations were all in my awareness when I decided to jam a few carnations into the same opening I'd jammed the ivy into.