Now Momma cactus is showing off!
Like I mentioned in my comment, one might almost think she wants to show the little one’s how it’s done.
My first count was off. If I include the bloom that fell off, she brought forth 20 buds.
The first opened this night, so this morning I took a shot of seven blooms, plus the one lying on the window sill.
old show-off
During the day a couple more opened or half opened and the lowest one from last night is already shrivelling, so I’d say depending on how you count them +/- eleven are open now.
And - yes - one of these days I’m gonna wash the bird droppings off of that window there.
June 4th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Big Momma is putting on quite a show!
What kind of cactus is she? She looks a bit like a mini saguaro to me. Will you try to pollinate the flowers? It might be fun to try and grow some more cacti from seeds. 
June 6th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Will you now…? ;o)
drbpm
What? drop ‘em?
June 9th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Is it weird to tell all the things about this “cactus” to us?
And to demand an English language blog from Coren the Lepiska Freak
June 9th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
I don’t know. Is it weird? Well, I am weird, so I suppose it must be.
Why “cactus”? It is a cactus…. *puzzled look*
I see that comment came from Trabzon. My sis went to Trabzon once.
And I demand English because I want to be able to read what Coren writes.
*pouts*
June 17th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
I guess its weird and normal to us. How do you know me “Mr Trabzon” ?(wierd Name
Call me Feyling). I guess Coren talks too much these days 
Well actually it’s good to see these interesting cactus things (:P) Because Coren allways talks about his boring trips about his job. Really boring
June 17th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
I called you Mr Trabzon because I have a tracker on my blog. You tracked from Trabzon. Only then did Coren talk when I asked him if that Trabzon person commenting on my blog might have been the one who had been wondering about me on his blog.
Well, I wouldn’t know how (un)interesting his blog is, as it is written in Turkish and my vocabulary spans about 20 words (consisting of hello, good-bye and helpful phrases like “Garson, üç bira lütfen”, lol….) - or let’s be very optimistic and say maybe 30, if I think very hard - so I don’t know what he’s on about.
My colleague Ali insists that his blog is very fascinating though.
Feyling it is, then.
June 19th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Hi Mel,
I haven’t check your blog for a while. Nice Momma. She looks happy. say hi to her and her new blooms.
Oh, and I know it’s “blome” in ur lonaguage, if I’m right.
I read you poem and I love it.
BTW….
svfbwm
and again
asirs
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:53 am
I haven’t been by in a while–and what a treat when I did stop by. Such a beautiful cactus! I have a few little cacti on my window sill–but they aren’t flowering, nor do they look like they want to. Maybe they’d like living in your house better–too bad I can’t send them along.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Attawie, thank you for both your comments.
I think you got German confused with Dutch though. A Blume is a flower, but blooms we’d call Blüten. But it might be that it’s something like you said in Dutch.
Anyway, the blooms have long gone, they’re only open for about 1.5 days each. Yeah, you can’t really put off making the photos, lol.
Jarvenpa, welcome back.
I am sure your cacti would like the trip to here in a parcel, yup.
July 3rd, 2006 at 10:44 am
I didn’t know I know some Dutch words
jybpe
sounds like a JPG–>