One of my Christmas Cactuses has decided to bloom this year. I currently have three different plants and they seem to like to take turns flowering. I love these plants. Before they bloom they don't look like much. They are a bunch of oddly shaped leaves that build on themselves in rows. Then all of the sudden you have this little red dots at the end of one of the leaves. This dot is followed by several others. Slowly the dots grow until they break open into these cascades of red, pink, and white. And the flowers last for a long time.
I love this plant. Most of the time they are just some cactus. They are impossible to kill (not that I have tried). They aren't necessarily beautiful. Then they flower and they are suddenly beautiful and interesting. Sometimes I feel like these plants. Most of the time I'm hiding waiting out, enjoying good food and sunlight. But I'm also waiting, waiting for the time to come when I can just kick peoples socks off. I feel like I'm still waiting to arrive.
I wonder what else December has in store.
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