this afternoon was given a bamboo plant…

reminded me of the one that a friend of the girls’ brought me four years ago when I had gall bladder surgery following a bad bout of pancreatitis…

it is still doing very nicely although I’ve been a bit remiss in watering, lol…

usually the plants in the house get watered on Saturday mornings… strange schedules have caused me to forgot for the last few weeks…

happily, when I went to take this picture, I remembered and it is now happily wet…

as I was heading out to work this morning, the clematis had buds opening, so I had to stop the car, climb out in a very awkward spot, reach into the back of the car to get my camera and then got this shot…

we had tried growing them for many years and this one finally took in 2010 and has come back each year since then…