Today is my sisters birthday.  It turns out (after a DNA test) that they are identical. (I’m very proud though that as the big sister, I can tell the difference between then even when they can’t 🙂)  They are quite similar though, aren’t they?

On what might seem like a complete tangent (but trust me here), my Aunt and cousin bought my Mum an amazing amaryllis for Christmas.  The amazing thing about it was that the bulb was encase in wax – no soil and no room for water.  Despite this, it bloomed from Christmas through to the end of January.

When we cleared Mum’s room the amaryllis had the ends of a bloom so I brought it home with the intent of removing the wax to discover what the bulb looked like after all that effort.  A couple of weekends ago I went to do that, cut away the old stems and discovered a new one:

I didn’t see how that bulb would have the energy to do very much more, but today, on my sisters birthday two flowers came out perfectly:

Twin blooms.  I think Mum might have sent them a present.  🙂 💜