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A botanical happy birthday.....
Apr. 1st, 2013 04:41 pmIt's Monday. It's April 1. It's m'birthday.
One friend called yesterday morning from Atlanta at 7am, to sing me Happy Birthday. He then asked how often my birthday falls out on Easter Sunday. I said I didn't know off-hand, but mentioned I was born on Good Friday, as well as the first day of Passover. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was a day early. I also just wanted to go back to sleep.
I have an orchid on the deck I got as a gift a decade ago. One of the RN's I'd known for 20 years was retiring and she raised orchids for a hobby. This one is native to our climate and was quite happy to be left out on the deck. It sat not doing much, other than the rare new leaf for 5 years and then 2 weeks prior to our wedding, put out its first flower spike. The blossoms opened just in time for our wedding. It's put out one other spike two years thereafter, and I noted on Saturday there are two flower spikes now up, each one packed with buds (as in 16 on one and 20 on the other!). The color of this flower is unusual - sort of a bronze color with hints of mauve. I'm looking forward to seeing them in the months to come. The photo below is from the day of our wedding.
There are a ton of well wishes on Facebook, a place I never go, and many well wishes from folks here on LJ. A call from Mom, another from my youngest sister, an email from my older sister (who is still younger than I, but older than the one who called). Oh yeah, a My staff took me out to sushi at lunch. Nothing says happy birthday than a hot bowl of miso and a Utah roll.
One friend called yesterday morning from Atlanta at 7am, to sing me Happy Birthday. He then asked how often my birthday falls out on Easter Sunday. I said I didn't know off-hand, but mentioned I was born on Good Friday, as well as the first day of Passover. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was a day early. I also just wanted to go back to sleep.
I have an orchid on the deck I got as a gift a decade ago. One of the RN's I'd known for 20 years was retiring and she raised orchids for a hobby. This one is native to our climate and was quite happy to be left out on the deck. It sat not doing much, other than the rare new leaf for 5 years and then 2 weeks prior to our wedding, put out its first flower spike. The blossoms opened just in time for our wedding. It's put out one other spike two years thereafter, and I noted on Saturday there are two flower spikes now up, each one packed with buds (as in 16 on one and 20 on the other!). The color of this flower is unusual - sort of a bronze color with hints of mauve. I'm looking forward to seeing them in the months to come. The photo below is from the day of our wedding.
There are a ton of well wishes on Facebook, a place I never go, and many well wishes from folks here on LJ. A call from Mom, another from my youngest sister, an email from my older sister (who is still younger than I, but older than the one who called). Oh yeah, a My staff took me out to sushi at lunch. Nothing says happy birthday than a hot bowl of miso and a Utah roll.
