This was such a fun challenge. I couldn’t resist adding a photo of my grandma and me. Perhaps adding a black and white is cheating, but it is the only photo I have of her and me. I think I was two. She died before we ever saw each other again.
I guess it was inevitable that red poinsettias would eventually show up here! Happy Christmas Eve, everyone. Nine of us will be celebrating at my house.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day
For Cee’s FOTD
This beauty was one of dozens flanking the effigy of the Virgin Mary near the plaza in San Juan Cosala. The church is filled with hundreds.
“When you wore a tulip, a rosy red tulip–and I wore a big yellow rose.” (We just got the colors mixed up a bit.) For Cee’s Flower of the day. See her contribution HERE to complete the ditty.
When I moved here eighteen years ago, my first visitor was my friend Linda from Oaxaca. Since Christmas was nearing, she brought me a beautiful poinsettia plant which I planted in the lower garden after the holidays. Over the next few years, it grew and grew, but when I had my studio built, it covered it up and I eventually forgot it was there. This year, my only poinsettia blooming was the peach–colored one I showed in a FOTD post a few days ago. But, surprise, surprise. As I exited my studio the other day, I noticed a flash of red behind the dense cover between the sidewalk and the wall and there, peeking out from around the corner of the studio, was this beautiful red poinsettia. Things like to grow in Mexico, neglected or not! So here, at last, is a shot from me of a red poinsettia. Here they are called “La Flor de la Nochebuena” (Flower of the Holy Night, or Christmas Eve). Merry Xmas, everyone!!!
For Cee’s FOTD
This hibiscus was poking up to the sunset sky head and shoulders above the rest, so no distracting background.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.
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