Bittersweet...

This is a Massive Bunch of Bittersweet, that is growing over an old arbor, between the Shop, and House.... I have tried for years, to get it to grow, to no avail.... My Late Sister, Chery, adored it.... and those fall colors, of Bittersweet, and Chocolate Browns, were always in her home...{except her kitchen... Everything was White... before 'white' was cool... Chery did it... she was 'Cool'...}she planted Bittersweet at her farm...and, within, a few years... she had it growing, like crazy.... she and I would cut it, for the Fall Sale.... When she passed away.... my brother in law, brought some out, the first year after Chery died....and said, I could come get more, anytime.... But... I could never bring myself, to go back out to her house, and cut it... I had some old branches, in the shop, and would lay them along the fence line, around the shop... it grew... but never berried. I think Chery whispered in it's ear... and asked it to berry.... It's loaded... all from her beautiful Bittersweet vines.....I miss her so... She used to come out, and help, at the sale... from the very first year, in the little one stall, attached garage...I'll never forget Bud, from Renate's, in Main Amana, was my first 'Big Time' dealer, that shopped the little sale... He breezed up the drive, I was working away... nothing was priced { Not much has changed...} He kept asking Chery, how much things were... Chery would turn to me, and say, "Barbie, how much is this?...Barbie, how much is that?".... Bud must have thought it was funny.... He walked up to me, and with a 'smarty pants' look on his face, said, "Barbie, how much is this?"... I stopped in my tracks... I was, and always will be "Barbie, to my Mom, Dad, family, and siblings... but, hearing "Barbie", from someone, I barely knew, at that time...was, well... weird....I threw a price at him, along with a dagger stare... He was amused.... oh my...