GREAT GREENERY: Big Rapids resident Patrick Hergeden examines a wreath he made on Monday night at the Big Rapids Garden Club’s holiday greens workshop. (Pioneer photos/ Whitney Gronski-Buffa)

This was really the only shot I wanted when my editor told me I had to go to this workshop thing, but I didn’t expect my subject would be the only male participant in the room. (Aside from Frank, in the background, who decorates trees professionally. He’s my fabulous neighbor.)

To my right, out of frame, was the woman who wreaked this havoc upon me. I was basically ready to call it a night after that.