Yesterday afternoon I was moving around enough to go out with Bode for a mid-afternoon walk. I came down with another migraine on Wednesday. Although it was pleasant and the sun was out, it was low in the sky.
There are three plants that I brought in blooming now.
The Christmas cactus is at peak bloom. Cacti are rather zen plants, but when they bloom, are really showy.
A few days ago I noticed a cluster of three star-shaped pale pink flowers on the jade tree. They were quite small, about half an inch across, that had I not been watering the plants I probably wouldn’t have noticed them.
The last was the biggest surprise. I planted snapdragons late, and although they seemed to weather the first frosts, none of the buds opened. The day before the first hard frost, I picked a stem and put it in a little bottle of water in the kitchen window. It grew roots, but the two buds on it turned brown and dried up. The leaves looked OK, so I left it there for a bit of green. It grew another bud at the tip which is almost open this morning.
Booger! It sure took a while to notice it, but around the beginning of April I seem to have unchecked the “Allow Comments” box, and it is sticky, so just went through and enabled comments for about nine months worth of posts. Sigh…
