A peaceful and happy (and warm and cozy) winter solstice to all and sundry.

My cactus is going to bloom again. The dark pink buds are emerging in a ring around its little round barrel top. Cacti being tough, it's survived in a small pot, growing very slowly, in various places around the side and back yards since I was in middle school, in the mid-eighties. My friend Brett gave it to me, upon the occasion of I can't remember what exactly. I really ought to repot it. I can't decide whether to do it now, or wait till after it blooms -- I don't want to disrupt it.

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