davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[Alliecat]

Aww, how sad about the hoya    I have a Christmas cactus that was my parents', and has come through various iterations and cuttings.
I had to go zoom in on Flickr cos this was too small and I couldn't tell what I was looking at.  The roots are on the top of the brown thing?
I also had to look up "propagule".  Although the meaning is easily guessed, I don't know that I've ever heard cuttings, corms, bulbs etc. called that.
And, another SMH moment at our digital-dumb increasingly-disconnected-from-nature society, that when I looked up "mangrove propagule", 10 of the first dozen results were for Minecraft.  WTF, kids aren't learning about planting seeds and growing actual plants; they're manipulating little bits of data on a screen.  Ugh.  Humans are doomed. 

...This time of year, at least in the gloomy Great White North, a lot of things feel like they're in an ebb cycle