You would not think that a succulent plant would do well in water. I started a "leaf" of
Night-blooming cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) in 1976 and now have dozens of plants from this same start. This plant is in the cactus family, but it does not have any spines. The "leaves" look like long green tongues, with slightly scalloped edges. The new growth appear from the inside of some of the scallops, so it gives the plant a rather wild and wooly look after a while. I just break off some of the small leaves and stick them in dirt or water, whatever's handy at the moment.
Last Wednesday I discovered that one of them had bloomed. Now, this is a Big Botanical Deal. Many gardners wait a lifetime and never see their plants bloom.
I did manage to figure out how to use my new digital camera enough to snap a couple of shots of the blossom, but it had already stuck itself to the glass pane of the window over the kitchen sink, so it was kind of distorted. I was still very pleased to have seen it.
And then yesterday... ANOTHER bloom!! This one looks more robust because it's not stuck to a window. Now I am going around the house to check all the plants, just in case.
Thank you, Goddess, for sending me such a lovely and unexpected gift.
Bright Blessings,
Spiral Crone
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This time yesterday I was at a rubber stamp convention, having a wonderful time shopping and watching demos. The creativity that some people have is simply amazing! Given the variables of medium, surface, color, texture, and design, there are an infinite number of possibilites for rubber stamp art, and just when you think you've seen it all...
Rubber Stampers are special people. They are kind and generous, and funny, too. They have a sense of humor and they can express it in their art. Sometimes the joke is very subtle, a small design that you have to look twice to see. Sometimes you can look at it and not see it at all, because it's a Private Joke.
I am so inspired by the ideas that I saw that I can't wait to start trying out some of them now that I'm back home again. And I already have some variations of my own that I want to try. I want to make background paper with mica watercolors, but it might turn out like the hand-made tea leaf paper that I did. I take it out every once in a while and admire it, but then I put it away and "save" it. I did manage to use some of it in a project once, but that was Long Ago. I have lots of tea for making some more, and that might loosen me up a little bit. My brain says, "Why did you go to all the trouble of making this, just to not use it?" I haven't come up with a satisfactory answer for that yet.
Bright Blessings,
Spiral Crone
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