Preparations and a blossom

 

Above from the net, below are my relatives!

More from the net!

Today's art:

Christmas Tree - Chadds Ford (Popular Magazine, Cover Illustration), 1922. W. C. Wyeth

Wrapping day at my house!

 

Making rum balls to take to a pot-luck supper! Yes I had a few tastes.

Today's quote:

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. -Mary Renault, novelist (1905-1983)

Santa looking at two sleeping children by Norman Rockwell 1952

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What a beautiful bulb, giving so many flowers!

Stopping for a breather with 3 blossoms open already, on Sun. Dec 22, 2024!

Open Yesterday's Pages gives some history that O Holy Night was an Abolitionist carol.

Winter flowers

This poor mixed up bloom of amaryllis, which had started to sprout in the box, made it this far, and no further.  It just didn't have leaves to help it figure out what it was supposed to do.  Box must have been warm where the bulb had been stored before I purchased it.  Of course I gave it soil and water and light, but it didn't make it.  And though it's guaranteed, I threw out the box.

So the bulb is now following the proper procedures and may have leaves, and if I'm lucky, a beautiful flower like I had last year.

Two of my friends this winter, cat and amaryllis

In case not, I've got a lovely orchid to enjoy. 

When I gave one to my friend who cat sat for me, I decided to gift myself with one as well.

 It reminds me of O'Keefe's paintings.