Better Late than… Amaryllis 2012

 

Well, it's not exactly the deep, solid red that the box indicated it would be, it will only have three blossoms instead of the customary four, its soil came "planted" with thousands of tiny fruit fly-type gnats, and it's three weeks after its promised Christmas blooming date, but other than that, my 2012 Amaryllis is beautiful, lol. Sitting outside on my plaid-painted porch rocker for a quick natural-light photo, also visible is my quaint aluminum flower "pot" on the right, patiently awaiting Spring—and fresh plants!

 

Sitting in the livingroom for this shot, a small framed portrait of my aunt Hoohoo during the 1950s is to the flowers' left. My vintage gold German angel is to its right—the ever present "do it, don't do it" pair that sit on my shoulders, lol.

Now posed downstairs in front of Dagmar Bumper Bullets No. 2. The patterns and colors of the Amaryllis are picked up by this piece's repeated  textures of a 1956 Cadillac's grille reflected in its chromed "Dagmar" bumper guards.