On today’s episode of Early Morning On The Deck …
I was outside deadheading the marigolds and clipping off the flowers from the basil plants when I noticed for the first time that the tall flower heads had a beautiful base on them that was neither leaf nor flower. Hard to imagine that I didn’t notice this before. As soon as I saw it, I thought that the designer of Stem #6016 on vintage Fostoria glassware must have been inspired by this.
I really enjoy looking at that area where the stem meets the bowl whenever I use one of these old glasses but I always assumed that I was looking at a flower not another botanical feature. Am I the only one that didn’t know this?
Cripes Suzette 
I didn’t know this. Cool beans.
Wow! You really know your glassware.
Let’s just say that I spend a lot of time looking at the bottom of an empty cocktail glass.
Well cut off my legs and call me Shorty if you don’t make the most uninteresting things very interesting. This is how I know you have “Teh Smarts”.
Wow, those are marigolds? They look like basil. Beautiful glass.
No not marigolds. That IS basil I didn’t photo-document the marigolds.
Ooops. I thought that was the dead-headed marigolds.