Today I have four oxblood lilies blooming and another is pushing up a shoot! I was just out looking for them two days ago and didn’t see a sign and now all of a sudden here they are, looking a little like freshly metamorphised butterflies drying their wings.

Actually one had bloomed in mid-August while I was on vacation according to my sources, and I had been afraid that that was all the bloom I would get.

These were a gift from MSS, whose Zanthan Gardens appear to be ablaze in them. Maybe someday I will have such a display as hers. I should take the laptop out now so the lilies can see her pictures; maybe they will be inspired to realize the potential within themselves.