Rapunzel

My view out the kitchen window is of a camellia bush in my neighbor's yard. If you'd asked me two months ago how I felt about this common plant, I'd have answered with a somewhat ambivalent "they're o.k.". Now, however, after watching bloom after exquisitely perfect bloom open, I've become the mother in the fairy tale who wastes away from longing for some lettuce in her witchy neighbor's garden. I finally had to tiptoe over and take... a picture. You thought I was going to pick one didn't you? No way! Frighteningly, the woman who lives next door might be a distant relative of the, shall we say, 'lettuce grower' in the story...enough said.