Only one pot of Christmas cactus remains at my house after giving away almost all my plants back in 2023 to eliminate tripping hazards for my sweet husband. The final Christmas cactus, as well as my final hoya plant, were to be personally delivered to my mom in California the week after Thanksgiving last year. She'd never owned either species, and she loved the photos I sent, so I saved the last two for her. The Thanksgiving week snowstorm over our Colorado Rockies prevented us from road-tripping, and I was rewarded on Thanksgiving Day with beautiful red blossoms. When I converted White Friday photos to black and white, my red Christmas cactus rendered the perfect hue for my tenth annual White Friday blog post. (Wow!!! Ten years today!!!)
We received another five inches of snow the day before Thanksgiving last year, and I was able shoot 188 photos of mostly quickly melting snowflakes. Out of that batch, I got 88 halfway decent shots. I finished editing my photos at 1:30 a.m. White Friday 2024, so snowflake photos were my first official 2024 White Friday project.
When Lizard awoke, he decided he wanted a tortilla with cheese for breakfast instead of homemade waffles. White Friday again. I put a mixture of white Italian cheeses on a white tortilla, and second project of the day was soon doing a great disappering act. Lizard loved it!
My next White Friday project was the daily hip pain management course my insurance company provided a couple of weeks earlier. It was a free service provided to help me (and presumably all the company's clients) stay healthy. Most of the exercises they gave me were very easy, but anything that can take the jolt out of arthritis is worth a shot, right?
Finally, it was time to crochet. I kept wondering what WIP I could work on that might satisfy my White Friday yearnings. I could make a Christmas T-shirt or sweatshirt; I had three unused Ts and two unused sweatshirts hanging in my closet leftover from craft fair goals at least a decade ago. I could work on my Moda Blockheads project; it could certainly use any kind of attention. I could work on Hawaiian Punch. I could craft any of my Spoonflower panels into a mini or baby quilt; all the panels are white on the backside. If I used white thread, that would count, right? Ultimately, I chose to make a new snowflake for my Snowflake Monday blog post ten days away. (The following week was already done.)
I ended up using the pattern to make a couple of snowflake necklaces, too. I'd just found out exactly two weeks earlier to the day that my sister had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I had a pink glow stone, and covering it with sparkly thread provided by Sisters of the Snowflake founder Autumn gave me courage to go forward in faith on behalf of my sister.
We had a backyard visitor while I crocheted. Vanilla sky provided the perfect background for this particular photo.
We celebrated Thanksgiving with Lizard's mom a week late because of the big Thanksgiving snowstorm. This provided a second chance at more White Friday photos a week late. I count them because I could have gone shopping, or I could have gone for a haircut. Instead, for the first time in many years, I took snow and snowflake photos on the Grand Mesa!!!
No better way in the world to celebrate White Friday, in my opinion! Well, perhaps attending the brand new Grand Junction temple will make this year even more special. It wasn't yet open in 2024.
Grand Mesa snowflakes. Oh, my goodness! It was so cold, but the flakes were SO big! I can't wait to go back!
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