Christmas Cactus

Christmas Cactus

To get this photo, I held my camera upside down under the plant at the bottom and clicked to see what I would get.

OOPS! Guess who photo bombed herself?

For White Christmas Cactus former post click HERE it has a photo bomb to

This Christmas Cactus is in the plant nursery and blooming itself crazy.

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December in Florida

Random thoughts when I took the above photo.  NOTE update: many comments on the lemon tree. The tree above is a Golden Poinciana Tree, flowers not lemons.

Does she wear and  itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow poke a dot bikini....(five minutes to the beach)
Did she  park the car under the tree because it matched the tree?
Does she work in K-Mart or Publix and bought the car to match the tree?
Do you agree the car belongs to a SHE?  I mean do you know any men that drive an Easter egg yellow car?

The only snow we had on Christmas Eve.... but our snowflakes are REALLY BIG....

Random thoughts while snapping... will anyone notice I got up from lunch to walk to the window and snap a snowflake? a plastic one?

Will anyone care that our  Christmas cactus on the front porch bloomed the week before Christmas?

Click here for post on all our Christmas Cactus 

Christmas Cactus and the Header

 After the "White Bloom Shoot" at  posted Saturday,  I decided to PLAY with one bloom off the dark pink Christmas Cactus.      

TO Dark.....

NOPE! try again!

OOPS! whose toes are those???

AHA! Moment.... lay it between the two Christmas lights. Not exactly what I wanted, tired of Snapping (YES, that does happen occasional) I dumped an hours worth of snapping in the computer and thought I don't really like this a whole lot, wonder what I can DO to it in Photoshop

Thus goes the story of the Christmas Cactus that turned into a header.....

Schlumbergera

 Schlumbergera say that three times really fast. OR you can say Christmas Cactus. This is the plant hubby dragged out of the garbage 7 years ago, with only one piece alive. Now it lives on the front porch. My blog friend Tammy wanted to see it. I said it is to low to the ground. Hubby brought it in and sat it on the kitchen table. Need I say more?

OOOOPSIE DAISY..... MadSnapper Madly Snapped with out LOOKING

Second Chances

 Our Christmas Cactus, 5 of the 6 we have, are confused and in full bloom for the last week of November.
This large plant above, belonged to my mother and when she died in 1990, I brought it home. The plant has been near death many times, but each time Bob broke the root system up and made other plants.

The vivid pink on the left in above photo and the second photo down is a white one. Both of these plants were found in  the trash bin at church about 8 years ago, they  appeared to be dead, twisted and in tiny  black containers, tossed away by someone who stopped caring.

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  Hubby dug them out and  brought them home and here they are, victims of bad things and being dismissed as trash, now living a life with a second chance. They live on our porch side by side, blooming and creating beauty for a few weeks a year.

 These brilliant magenta flowers were once ugly and almost dead,  Bob gave them a second chance.

There is nothing we have done or could ever do that would turn God away from us, He is a God of  2nd Chances. 

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. Matthew 18:21-22 ESV