When I'm not looking at the computer screen, I'm often looking out my kitchen window.

I never realized how messy it was until I took a photograph. Now I'm using my camera as a way to find the ugly spots in my house.

I need to wash those windows! I think it's time to rewallpaper too. What a bunch of ugly plants, though I've known this for a while.

The scraggly thing in the red pail to the right of the photo holds the remains of Uncle Mort. Uncle Mort is about 85 years old and I can't kill him even though he's just a few sprigs of green. U_G_L_Y. (He was given to a relative shortly before the giver drowned at a young age and that relative and now his children have kept the plant going to honor poor Mort. Somehow I also got a piece of Mort which I now must watch over.)

On the left: the brown thing hanging is onions I picked from the garden and braided...pretty homely.

Also the big pot on the left holds some waning. chartreuse parsley. (Hate the pot.) Next to that are the violet twins named Vivian One and Vivian Two -- both barely holding on to their tenuous health. Any red blossoms you see are fake.

I am going to tackle this window and its contents soon.

I never realized how god-awful ugly it looked until I froze it in time and uploaded it to the computer.