history repeats itself

Last year, this same thing happened: I was moving ferns indoors for the winter and in the process of dumping them out of their outdoor pots and into their indoor pots, some fronds broke off. And, like last year, some of them were so pretty I couldn't throw them away, so I gathered them up and dropped them into a glass until I could decide what else to do with them. There they have stayed. I added the pepper just for fun, because that's what landed at the base of my fern fronds last year (see second photo)!