“Dead Heads”

The flowers on my deck that summer were lovely and bountiful. There were Petunias and Nasturtiums, Snap Dragons and Nicotiana, Geraniums and Lobelia, to name just a few. As was my morning ritual, I had gotten up, made myself a cup of tea and headed out onto the deck to enjoy the morning sunshine and my flowers. Sitting at my stained glass table, drinking my tea, I noticed that my Cosmos flowers needed a little tending. Grabbing the clippers that were hanging on a cup hook beside me I proceeded to snip off all the faded blooms placing them into a pile on the deck railing. Though the flower blooms had withered and lost their glory, piled up all together like that, sitting in the sunshine, they were still a pretty sight. So I grabbed my camera and photographed the faded blooms that had been dead headed.