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See my earlier blog with pictures of eight “slips” from a beautiful bush in another yard. One-by-one the plants dried up and died (despite my pampering). I have one surviving plant–but I’m questioning its longevity.

For nineteen months, I watched this Christmas Cactus suffer through the seasons–and it never bloomed. On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, I spirited it away from the CARE Center with hopes to coax it to bloom for the holidays. The first picture reveals the plant after a night with gentle rain. It was transplanted into a larger planter, with fresh soil. ~~ On June 8, 2015, I could see tiny new growth. On June 15, new growth was very visible. ~~ The plant has thrived in a planter hanging in the shade. I expect flowers before Christmas!!

You’ve seen all my pictures?! The camera is never very far away!! Everything on CARE site number nine could disappear quickly in a tornado **OR** in a matter of hours when Maintenance removes the fruit of my labors.

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I grabbed my camera and ran out in the rain to take pictures of a rainbow. It has been raining lightly for hours but when the sun came out I suspected there might be a rainbow. Not very vivid but a pleasant sight to see. ~~ Approximately three-quarters inch of rain since twelve-noon yesterday.

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