This was taken December 27.

It's just amazing how this plant, called a "Christmas Cactus" in the US, (I have no idea what it's called here) managed to do that, bloom exactly on the right day.

I bought it as a tiny thing last May -- then did everything wrong, I later found out. I repotted it when I shouldn't have, I alternately watered it too much and let it get too dry, so dry that a few branches broke off during the summer.

But still -- right on time -- it bloomed.

Lovely. Wish I had more of them.