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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 5/5/2019: the magic cactus, again
From: cartersxrd at gmail.com (CartersXRd)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 20:28:32 -0400
References: <E7380B92-E3F8-4A82-B3B4-D4A569B7BEFE@frozenlight.eu> <80D344CF-FADD-4405-9875-AA39F6254F92@gmail.com>

DAMN, I hit the wrong parenthesis

i?m not a bit sad about your cactus?I think it?s the greatest!

;^)

ric


> On May 10, 2019, at 8:25 PM, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> ;^(
> 
> ric
> 
> 
>> On May 10, 2019, at 3:35 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Most of you know the story: when my mother died in 2001, I drove back 
>> from Copenhagen to Zurich (where I was living at the time) with her 
>> favourite cactus. It lived with us in Zurich, moved with us to the 
>> Netherlands in 2003 and again to Spain in 2007. During all the moves, I 
>> did not entrust it to the moving company; instead, I drove it to its new 
>> home myself, including a 2-day, 2100 km drive from the Netherlands to 
>> Spain. 
>> 
>> After we settled in Spain, the cactus started flowering a couple of times 
>> a year. Clearly, it likes the sub-tropical climate of Alicante.
>> 
>> Last year, we bought a house (we had been renting until now) a few km 
>> north, close to the beach. The cactus of course moved with us, but it did 
>> not seem to thrive that well, perhaps because there was enough sunlight 
>> in the spot where I had placed it. A few weeks ago my wife moved it to a 
>> spot that gets more sustained sunshine, an voila?this week it rewarded 
>> us. Not only that, but the flowers open on Sunday, which was Mothers Day 
>> here in Spain?how fitting!
>> 
> 
> 
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