Peter this is too funny! I have wandered into film shoots in NYC and Boston; always a surreal experience. As a film critic I often think I am much more interested in the results of the very complex task of filmmaking than the process: a decidedly-unromantic state of affairs.

BTW the show is "Party of Five" which just had its farewell episode last night...five actors and their lovers and wives out of work!

I do agree about the waste, but it made me think of something I see occasionally. When I go to one of my favorite spots in Boston, the rose garden at the Back Bay Fens, sometimes there is a wheelbarrow that is left there at the end of the day, at certain times of year, when the roses are in full bloom. The wheelbarrow is full of blooms. Some snipped, some merely fallen, some broken and pulled off. But the wheelbarrow is left there, I believe, for visitors to feel okay about having a rose or two (otherwise a no-no). These are gorgeous flowers, many of them antique varieties that smell indescribably beautiful. Flowers are just as beautiful in death as they are in life...

but I am glad you rescued that pot anyway! Maybe he/she will grow to teach others the art of sitting on the counter and suffering the clippers with good grace...those who can't, teach, they say... those who can't teach, administrate (or criticize)

peg