Christmas Cactus
Christmas Cactus: Schlumbergera
Stephanie is blooming!
October 9, 2003
camera: Nikon CoolPix 2500
Photo by BT
Christmas is coming!
It has been proven to me in the
garden!
The Christmas cactus is blooming.
Is it early?
Does Christmas really only come
in December?
No, the 'Schlumbergera Stephanie'
says it is near!
Perhaps it is everyday, the spirit
of Christmas.
Christmas is coming!
The Christmas cactus is blooming!
---BT
"They(flowers) are the hieroglyphics
of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though
few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."
----Lydia M. Child
Schlumbergesa Stephanie at bloom
in October, 2003, Southern California
camera: Nikon CoolPix 2500
macro mode
"The virtue of the camera
is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an
artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."
----Brooks Anderson
A clay pot of 'Stephanie' Christmas
cactus in bloom.
October 18, 2003
Christmas Cactus: Holiday, Schlumbergera Stephanie
September 10, 2004
Camera: Canon S50 Digital
Photo by BT
The neon Christmas cactus,
Thinking it is fooling nature's cycles,
Blooms in the warmth of a mid September.
I am sure it is laughing cleverly, as it continues
To produce its glorious blooms
In the warm and humid after-summer.
-----BT
"When at last I took the
time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole
new world.....as if a window had been opened to let in the sun."
----Princess Grace of Monaco
