My Thanksgiving Cactus is doing double time. Many of the stems have two buds rather than one like last year. I’m still not doing anything special: it hangs in a northern facing window, and I water it twice a week. Every few months I add fertilizer to the water for all my plants, but this is haphazard at best, even though I have a reminder on my phone to do so. This is the window that leads to the catio, so often it is open below where the cactus hangs. The plant is often festooned with house spider webs. I am bemused that it is happy, thriving, and blooming, but I certainly enjoy that it is.

This is the largest leaf on our property. iNaturalist identifies it, consistently, as a kind of mulberry. We have a few saplings with this kind of leaf in the back woods, one of which is about 12 feet tall. I have not seen any berries, but the trees are all under a canopy of post oak and cedar elm, so don’t get much sunlight. I’m keeping an eye on them though, and I’ve marked a couple of the smaller saplings for possible transplant to a sunnier location. The idea of mulberry pie is enticing.