Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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! >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information