i’d like you to think about the patience involved in placing these individual hydrangea flowers on the tips of this completely unrelated branch. then i’d like you to think about the feelings you might have if the telescoping leg of your camera tripod suddenly decided to slip and send your camera plummeting to the ground onto the exquisitely delicate scene you had just spent an hour arranging just so. in the words of my high school daughter, “i am cry.”

evergreen branch and hydrangea blossoms

saint paul, minnesota