april fool’s day

mother nature played a little april fools joke on us in the twin cities today. we woke up to 5 inches of fresh, sticky snow. ha ha. not funny. the snow was so wet and heavy that we have been snowed in all day with none of our vehicles heavy enough to push through it.  it appears to be melting fast enough that we should be free by tomorrow. in the meantime, i am sorting and purging all my little caches of set aside flora and fauna in preparation for the new season of gathering which is right around the corner, right? right? promise me it is just around the corner. hidden in one of my stashes were these three anthurium stems looking like supple leather. as pretty dried as their were fresh.

dried anthurium flowers