Sorry it's been so long. We moved house a little while back, and did some renovation to the new place (new to us, that is) and it's been hectic.
There has been more stash busting, pictures of which are not in the main computer yet, and some gardening.
Today, though, I am putting up a picture of a passion flower blossom that we saw in northern Spain during our Camino last summer.
This is called a passion flower because the parts of the flower reminded people of the Passion of Christ. Supposedly the five stamens remind of the Five Wounds and the lots of fringe bits correspond to, um, I think it was the number of days of the season of Lent. I am impressed by the idea that someone actually counted all the bits and discovered allegorical symbolism for them. I would never have thought of all that.
The passion flower blossoms are really pretty. Even the wild unimproved native Texas version is pretty! There is a kind of butterfly whose young--the caterpillars--think it's just the best food going. They are orange and I think they have dark spines or bumps all over their little wormy bodies.
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