Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Lithops blooms!

Four days ago our amazing lithops, a 'living stone' that is sure living, looked like it was preparing to bloom. We took this as a meta-4 representing the blooming of the newly-installed incoming minister at St. Paul UCC, Erin WI. See http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/johns-in-pulpit.html

The raccoon news has the scoop on this one. Shown above, the peculiar little plant is blossoming today. This evening the blossom closed up. What will it do tomorrow? Will it open when the sun comes up? Will the bloom continue to grow a wider radius? You are assured we will cover it right here on the SRN.




as it appeared on Sunday: