I was surprised when I realized the cactus was going to bloom again. It only stopped blooming a month ago, but apparently, this wasn’t so much a new bloom as the end of the intermission following the first blooming. I’m… Read More ›
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BLOSSOM TIME, BUT NOT IN NEW ENGLAND – Marilyn Armstrong
Friday Foto Fun: Blossom It’s coming into Autumn now, so most of the blossoms are gone and the bright leaves will (I hope) come soon. So far, all I see are a few yellow leaves. Nothing in the red or orange… Read More ›
CHRISTMAS CACTUS BUDDING AND BLOOMING
FLOWERS OF MY DAY Usually, my Christmas cactus blooms like mad around Thanksgiving, but this year, they looked limp and miserable. I realized I had done the one single thing that you can’t do to a cactus: I over-watered it…. Read More ›
OH! THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING, TRA LA
Speaking of blossoms, there hasn’t been much of a spring. Tra la. Mostly, there have been torrents of rain. Weeks of dark gray, overcast days . Once in a while, we get two or three sunny days, then the rain… Read More ›
DRIVE BY SHOOTING
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers Today we were in Boston. It was my surgery follow-up. He told me I’m doing fabulously and I look really great. “You should see how other people look a month after surgery!” I can just… Read More ›
POEM TO THE THAWING WIND
A Poem to the Thawing Wind By Robert Frost ☼ Come with rain, O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; Make the settled snow-bank steam; Find the brown beneath the white; But… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 