Things I Have Inherited from my Mother

My mother was an avid houseplant person.

Me, not so much, but I took hers on a temporary basis that seems to have become permanent.  Kind of like the cat.

She had an amaryllis bulb which I perched on my sunny kitchen windowsill and tossed some water on every week, and it seemed perfectly content to sit there and send up green leaves.  

A few weeks ago, it pushed up a stalk with a bud on it.

And it bloomed on the anniversary of my mother's death.