Bittersweet branches

Here is a picture of how I used artificial bittersweet branches to decorate our home. These branches are intriguung to me because it is not everyday you hear about a plant which has the name of an emotion. Here is what I wrote about this. Bittersweet is the name of an emotion. If one experience elicits two emotions such as happy and sad at the same time it is called bitter sweet. Lots of people go through lots of experiences. Some are happy and some are sad. If you use the word bittersweet in your conversation you can sound very philosophical or you can sound like a deep person. Consider my surprise when I was told that bittersweet is actually a plant with orange round berries. It typically grows around Thanksgiving time in the Midwest. Atleast the very first time I saw a bittersweet plant was on Thanksgiving day several years ago. It is like a vine or shrub on the side of roads. Our family had a pretty bittersweet wreath which was bought from a farmers market years ago. I did not know it's name and just hung it in our home. Then a visiting friend said it is a bitter sweet wreath. Then we moved to a new house and I think we bought a bitter sweet artificial branch from somewhere. It could be Pier 1 Imports or some other store. Every fall I used it to decorate our home. One day we drove to Indiana from Iowa on Thanksgiving day. There was very little traffic on the roads. On the side of the roads there were ramshackle barns, fields, little wood houses and lots and lots of bittersweet vines. They were growing profusely and abundantly on the side of roads. Orange is such an autumn color.. The whole world seems to become orange in autumn. The pumpkins piled outside grocery stores are orange. Many leaves are orange. And now these berries growing on the side of the road to Indiana from Iowa on the day of Thanksgiving.