May I Help You?

...is what the grocery store clerk asked as I took this picture. I could have explained the finer details of emergency blipping, but decided to fabricate a story instead. I told her I was taking pictures of the different kinds of orchids to show my husband so that he could choose one as a gift for...I thought quickly...his mother. Of course, I didn't mention that she had been deceased since 1997. For a moment, I enjoyed the alternate reality created in which Vivian was still alive and Pete and I were collaborating to buy her flowers~