Priceless

Remember the commercials where you see a few different items and their prices? Then you see something special (like "decorating the Christmas tree as a family") and the price is "priceless"? Well, I had a priceless experience last week.

I was sitting at Starbucks (that, in itself, is priceless). I was looking outside watching all the people coming and going. Then I saw a bunch of workers walk by, each carrying an armload of beautiful, but fake, fall-colored leaves.

Now, I know "the powers that be" control the weather... and I can't even count how many times I've walked outside in the morning and wondered how all the vegetation changed overnight... or if I was just more unobservant than I thought. (one day this spring I saw workers finishing the overnight tranformation work of replacing all the bushes in my compound with fully bloomed bushes)

Back to Starbucks: In the hour and a half that followed, I watched the workers as they twist-tied those fake leaves to the already barren bushes outside. I think I should start checking closely when I see beautiful flowers or plants, to see if they're real.

Fake leaves: $10.
Adding fall color to the boring grayness of winter: PRICELESS.

FREE!!!

It has been so long since I've been able to access my blog. Occasionally I was able to get to my blog, but never able to actually DO anything here...except look. But, for now, a "hole" has been made in the wall that has kept me away. So I'm going to try to remember to get back on here every once in a while to post stories and updates.