So long, its been good to know ye!

Pretty sad huh! Priscilla opened in a day, lasted a nice week, and then boom, she shriveled and died within 24 hours. The first picture is 2.8.10, and the 2nd picture was taken 2.9.10

She provided SMe with a fun, beautiful little diversion, and her grace was much appreciated.

It was fun, thanks for coming to visit her.

Wonder what our next project will be?

Who is Phyllis?

So listen, Some impostor poster put a post referring to my dear amaryllis Priscilla as Phyllis! Who would do such a dastardly thing? Whoops, I guess it was me. Mea culpa Amaryllisosa Nomenclature.

As a make-up gesture, here is a picture of my SSister-in-law's amaryllis-it is about to bloom a double-header.

sorry Priscilla, (head hung low)

Phyllis update

Here she is in all her glory! The closeup shows her bud just starting to open-what color do you see? I think I see red or pink. And do you appreciate the growth? The tip is almost to the top edge of the bottom window.

And those "eyes" peaking at you in the top picture-coming from the base of the jade plant? They are on a painted rock with a ladybug design that a SFriend gave to me. I rotate the jade plant frequently so that it does not grow too crooked, so you may have seen the "bug" in other pictures-just not so scary looking. I also pile on rocks stolen from SHusband to keep the jade plant propped upright.

Amaryllis week 2

As promised, here is the second week of our friend Priscilla the Amaryllis. Yes, I know, who names a plant? Well, actually, we also have a cactus named Charlie. Just being consistent here.

If you remember, on January 9th, she was just reaching the top of the bottom ceramic tile, now, she is up and over the sill, peaking out the window. If she looks closely, she will see that the snow that was covering most of the window outside has melted below the sill-having a bit of a melt today.

On the sill behind her sprouts is a "Thunder Egg" which is an agate quartz rock that looks like a plain old bumpy grey rock on the outside, but when broken open, the cavity is filled with this lovely stuff. In this case the blue filler is in the shape of a star. SHusband has these things all over, and I just pluck out ones that I like and borrow them for a bit.

While I am typing this, SH is giving me the chemical makeup of every type of gem stone, he loves to share info. Every few seconds he adds one more fact. Too funny. I am not being rude by not paying attention (I hope), he just tends to go on a smidge after we have finished talking, or at least I thought we were finished. Now I am going on, must be contagious.

Tune in next week for another adventure of Priscilla as she looks around her world.

Let's watch it grow!

Hi all, Santa brought me an Amaryllis bulb, and it is planted, and placed near the sunny window.

Here is a picture of it on 1-9-10, 4 days after planting, and another larger picture so we can compare it to my Jade plant.

I will try to take a picture every week to show it's progress. Come back and check on it why don'tcha?