A Memory and A Souvenir

In October

We spent a week in Sorrento, Italy

In the Sorrento City hotel

Our room was on the front

With a balcony

And the window box on the railing held a donkey tail sedum

Which could also be seen from inside the room

Of course, in Italy, it is an outside plant.

And our hotel wasn't the only one with trailing donkey tail sedum plants cascading down the front of the building.

I loved the little cascading sedums

wondering how I could get a start

and knowing that I really could not legally bring a start into the States.

Sigh!

So I didn't!

And what did I find today at

Home Depot?

A wee little donkey tail sedum plant!

In the breakfast room

In a tole cache pot

On the sideboard

Where it should be happy

For it will get plenty of sun!

Often my souvenirs  of trips are not the stuff that is sold in tourist shops

But rather things that I used or tasted or saw.

Real things!

Some brought home with me

But others, like this sedum, found here after I returned.

I shall remember our coffee and pastries on the balcony

of the hotel in Sorrento

where a donkey tail sedum was on the railing next to the table

Every time I see this little plant!

Alas, unlike Italy, it has to spend the winter indoors!

But it shall be a great memory of a great trip!

(Oh, and I got one for our friend who went with us -- they also had one on their balcony -- she doesn't know it -- it's a surprise for her!)

I'm joining Cindy at The Heart of Your Home for Amaze Me Monday.