A few months ago I spray painted two large outdoor vases I had at my previous house. Since then they’ve been sitting in my garage waiting for me to find something to put in them before being displayed on my front porch. I originally thought about installing some nice flowers. Then I remembered how I’d done that at my last house. With the porch ceiling preventing significant sunshine and no rain to keep them healthy the flowers quickly became brown sticks. Brown sticks? Yes!  That’s what I’ll do. I’ve seen a number of magazine pictures with sticks in vases as decorations. I’m sure there is some decorator-assigned name other than brown sticks but that’s what I call them. What do you think of the result?