A quickie
I’m busier than a twelve-peckered dog at the moment, but I thought I’d post that my cacti are still alive. No overwatering… yet. And I have photographic evidence of their survival. The succulent on the right has grown some three inches since I got it - I’m very proud.
Just you wait, I can kill any plant life unfortunate enough to be here.
I’ll also note I’m having a blast playing around with the old tripod my dad gave me and learning all the ins and outs of my Canon Rebel XSi EOS camera. In the above photo, the only auto setting was the white balance - everything else, including the focus, was fully manual. And I should add that I LOVE the manual focus option because you can zoom in to 10x magnification and get the focus JUST RIGHT before you take the picture. I’m looking forward to playing around with the camera when I go to Montana, and more specifically Glacier National Park, in August.
And I have a bonus picture of the asian salad I made this evening:
Mmmmm!
You might one day go somewhere to the southwest (Arizona?) and plant the little cacti out in the desert. Centuries from now, perhaps after this civilization has fallen and a new one tentatively arises on the ashes of its remains, someone may happen upon it and by some means come to know that human hands laid a little plant in the sand long ago and the mighty green colossus standing before them is the product of that effort. I wonder what they would say, then? What if we were to learn that human hands put Pando where it now resides? I know I’m all afield of what you’re saying, but I’m confident you’ll take care of the little plants, and they, too, will witness the coming and going of a great many epochs.