May 4, 2011
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Flowers for OBL
Don’t panic; ‘OBL’ is, and was, (long before the current infamous Slain Beast who usurped her name),
‘Ordinaria been Louden’, aka Ordinary-but Loud, an always captivating writer and positive presence on
Xanga.
I’d asked publicly here ‘for whom the cacti bloom?” a few days ago, and now the mystery seems to
have been solved! OBL’s birthday is tomorrow, 5 May, and my fervent succulents must’ve sensed it
hanging in the air.
Gaze at the photo, y’all. Prettier than any Pentagon exit/entrance wounds by a wide margin. God kinda knows what he’s doing, in the long run, it turns out.
But how did the eye-less ear-less prickly guys know it was her birthday? Probably thru spy-satelite
intercepts, but I’ll get our own spooks on it right away. We’re not too shabby on remote ops ourselves,
if I may boast a bit.
Comments (26)
Gorgeous! What a lucky person, to have blooming cactus and Mexican food for her birthday celebration.
Plants indeed have their own schedules. It’s very wet and very gray here, but the leaves are budding and the ferns unrolling even as I type. They cannot be held back.
We here in the southwest know that the cactus is blooming not because it is someone’s birthday, but because tomorrow is Cinque de Mayo.
I wish those were my cacti, they look so fine.
@scifiknitter - Yes, nature will out. Having attributed the previous mass synchronized bloom to my own birthday I naturally sought the divine source of this truly stunning sudden burst of colour. I’ll pray daily for warm in the upstate:)
@DEISENBERG - just heard there are folks hiding in your hills trying to push for legislation making the 4th of July the only legal bloom date. Tell it to the cacti, I say
@dirtbubble - It would be interesting to see how they like being a mile high. Here I’m at 250 feet.
Beautiful. Tomorrow may be cinco de mayo, today was Star Wars day. How’s that? you ask. May the fourth be with you!
@elgan - Haha. Clever, wish I’d thought of it, but I’m such a farmer. (I actually thought ‘Sinko de Mayo’ was where you poured the expired mayonaise.)
nice pots; wot’s all dat veggie stuff in dem?
@Sir_Sparrow - cactus; unfortunately inedible, save if you’ve a cast-iron belly.
Gorgeous color against all that tan. What makes them do that? Just amazing. Thanks for sharing.
@POETIC_ISIS - Hmm.. I was kinda counting on *you* to explain to me on a deep level ‘why they do that’. They’re gorgeous, probably even to aliens without our acquired ideas on beauty. Symmetry, purity of light spectrum, relative rarity, at least temporal. And I think Fibonacci is in there to boot, although I haven’t counted.
@jsolberg - Yes, and all cacti (Cactuses?) will be required to carry Colt 45s.
They’re beautiful!!!! What a great birthday present. I am amazed! I’ve never seen cacti bloom in concert before. so lovely. Thanks for posting them for my birthday.
@DEISENBERG - Well, except for Sagauro)sp?) and certain San Pedros, I consider the cactus “un-armed but dangerous”. Something in the spines refuse to heal quickly. Hey, it wouldnt be the first species which is beautiful but deadly.
@ordinarybutloud - I’m so thrilled you liked them. Hope you have an even happier birthday knowing that even Nature is smiling on you in particular:)
@seedsower - Yes it was fun, the blessed coincidence. Couldn’t have happened to a sweeter soul. (Except that you are obviously next in line. Birthdate?/ And I haven’t yet updated the Mystery of the Limas. Every morning I find a particular small beetle on them, one I called when I was little ‘plum curcurlique’. He looks like a miniature skid-loader with a long nose attached in front. Cute, but maybe guilty.
Hello. My first visit here and aren’t I lucky? They are beautiful. Great photos. Glad to meet ya!. Judith
They are so beautiful, amazing!So nice of you to post this for OBL, she is a favorite of mine too.
Now if only the Limas would do so well.@ordinarybutloud - Happy Birthday!!
@jsolberg - Aug 16,the day Elvis died.
Amazing how they go from masculine-looking to feminine just like that. Spectacular blooms.
What an incredible gesture! From evil comes beauty.
Ha ha I knew it once I read this, this was for xanga’s OBL.
@seedsower - Which makes you a possible re-incarnation. Hmm.. see you at the Quickee Mart. (Seriously, I put the date on my desk-top:)
@nurseynursey - The pleasure is equally mine, my friend. Hope you continue to enjoy my blog/ JS
@LoBornlytesThoughtPalace - A thought-inspiring reflection, evil and beauty. Homo sapiens went from his own spines (spears and swords) to Hiroshima and beyond. So I suppose I view cacti as simple ‘fit survivors’, by any means possible. More fun is the question: ‘Why so absurdly pretty, the flowers?’ Their polinators would have settled for drab colours, I assume. Thanks for your comment.