I just noticed this today -- what a darling e-card! Thanks so much for posting it here!

to you and everyone Ingrid that is one healthy, big beautiful Christmas Cactus!! Love the color Lucy

Oh yes, this helps -- a lot! it's cold, cold, cold here today. we had terrible wind storms last night. so my garden looks very forlorn now. thanx so much for posting such lovely pictures to give me something to wistfully gaze upon. I'm soooooo looking forward to sprintime!

Merry Christmas from London. The snow melted yesterday, and so it looks like every other Christmas here. Shame. But there's still deep snow around other parts of England, which is unusual, but very festive. Love to you all! "There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say...Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol