Oskar’s number one bud is beginning to open! Though it will take awhile for all the necessary petal tissue to build cell by marvelous cell and the bright red color to develop, this is an exciting beginning!
Meanwhile, the pink Christmas cactus has fully opened its wild beauty. At least two more buds follow.
According to the Church calendar, we are in the season of Advent—the season of excited anticipation of the celebration of Jesus’ birth and the anticipation of his return for his followers (John 14:2-4). Anticipation of the flowering of a bud seems a good way to celebrate the flowering of “the fullness of time”—Jesus’ birth, and his return.
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