My grandmother's Christmas cactus

 Sort of kind of 5 hours of sleep.


    No excuse, let alone any good excuse. 


The volcano vids have to wait.


Yesterday an actual on paper letter bore fruit and suddenly I was texting with a long ago divorced aunt. She texted me some of my cousins' familes and we started to catch up and say the past is the past and aunt is welcome as much or as little as she wants to the next Zoom family circle. Aunt sent pictures. I meant to sent Thanksgiving pics but the first time I inadvertantly sent my Christmas cactus. 


So my aunt told me that one year my grandmother's Christmas cactus had over 350 red blossoms. It stayed in the house when it was sold after she died and when that person gave it to her daughter, it took two people to move it. Aunt says MAYBE she can make contact and get us both starts.  That sounds lovely.


Meanwhile, today's Christmas cactus joy.


More and more pink blossoms
Centering the contents
of the photo not so much


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