Little Things
Check out this cool marvel of divine engineering I found this morning:
Unfortunately, until I replace my broken digital camera I have to use my Mac to take photos. It’s pretty funny dragging the laptop over to the fence, but how cool is it that the MacBook has a camera built into it? I wish the image was clearer, but, trust me, those dragonfly wings are incredible. Beautiful web-like devices, perfectly aligned. And at the end of the tail are these fin gismos that I’m guessing help him/her steer. Anyway, just thought I’d share that.
Also, another sweet miracle happened in my household recently. Last summer I bought a pretty little cactus, a tiny thing only about three inches in diameter. A succulent sage green momma flower, with two babies, one tucked on each side. But somehow I blew it, or they didn’t like the pot I put them in, or it got too blazing in the August sun, because first one of the babies dried up and then the momma didn’t look too happy either. I took them inside and put them on a windowsill for milder light. They seemed to do a lot better over the winter, but then one day in the early spring when the sun came out after what seemed like weeks, I made the mistake of putting them back outside for some sunlight and next thing I knew the mom looked sunburned and the other baby had shriveled up too. I think this was too much for the momma because half of her just kind of dried up and the other half looked like it was clinging for dear life, like this:
Who knows what I was doing wrong. I don’t think I overwatered. I couldn’t seem to figure out what kind of light she wanted.
But last week I turned the pot around on the windowsill and saw this cool rebirthing happening:
I took both these pictures today, so what you are seeing is the cactus from two sides. On this side is a whole new baby cactus pushing its way out from under the half-baked older one. Looks healthy and fine, just happily growing.
Believe me, I’m just going to leave well enough alone and appreciate.
