Serendipity

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Originally uploaded by ellarien.

This thing has been sitting in the campus cactus garden for as long as I can remember, at the base of the stump of the defunct Boojum tree, but I've never seen it in flower before. I was wandering back from lunch today and there it was, all these delicate pink flowers. I couldn't get really close, so this is more documentation than artistic shot.

Half a sentence

"Prosper and Plenty, Hope and Opportunity, Diamond and Sapphire and long-lost Pearl, Enterprise and Song-in-the-dark and Home-at-last; one by one the colonies took root."

I learned a lot about the history of the Worldwheel tonight. Maybe tomorrow I'll find out what, or who, convinced the Shipwights to go into business with humans rather than just granting them occasional passage.


(Also, GIP.)