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| Decorated for Christmas |
On December 16 we had a some very wet snow that brought about nine inches. It would probably have amounted to more, but in the afternoon the temperature rose and the snow turned to rain for a few hours before turning back to snow. I had just finished putting up the outdoor Christmas lights a day or two before, and the fresh snow gave our house the perfect look for a White Christmas. At dusk, I just I had to run out and take some photos!
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| Christmas decorations |
The following week was cold enough that the snow lingered on the ground, but alas, the day before Christmas Eve, another storm brought over an inch of rain and melted all the snow! Indoors, my Christmas cactus put forth its first flower-- a lovely pink and white bird-like creature. I thought that all three buds would open at roughly the same time, but the first flower has now faded and the other two buds will be a while before they are ready to open.
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| Christmas cactus flower |
2 comments:
rec;d a Christmas cactus last year; now it has 75 golden and pink flowers - my next door neighbor's husband's family have one that is 100 years old in a giant pot in UtAH - i WANT TO SEE A PICTURE! My new garden is almosdt done; fire resistant, drought tolerant. The center tree is a Palo Verde "Desert Sky: - it will bloom in the spring. The bark is green This is a thornless variety. There are succulents, echeverria's, jasmine, clematis, coreopsis, escallonia, Cuphea (Honey Bells) Russian Safe, Lavender Meerlo (ver fragrant, variegated foliage)aloes, etc., etc.
Happy New Year. Suzanne Your Christmas light are lovely!
A model for its genre. ;-)
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