In Memory of Clem

I used to have a cactus named Clementine (my roommate Justine and I like to name as many inanimate objects as possible). She was no bigger than a computer mouse, very prickly, and had a pretty purple flower. Unfortunately, I forgot about her all summer and she is now pushing up daisies/dead as a doornail/with Jesus (?)/at the end of the line/passed away.

This appears to be a rather dull subject: Christie being too stupid to water her cactus once a week, but you have to see what a dead cactus looks like!


Kind of gross, no? It's like she deflated and all of the green melted out too. Also, there is a bit of blackness near the root that can't quite be captured on a camera. Blech.

Sort of grosses me out really. I haven't thrown it out yet. It just reminds me of a floppy slug or something and I don't really want to touch it.

But hey, before you start judging me, at least the important thing is that my hermit crab Jibs is still alive!!

["yay, rocks."]

I was curious about other dead cacti so I looked some up on Google Images. There were many owners blogging about the same thing that happened to me with the same sized cacti... yet I posted this anyway.

There were also some real ones out in the desert. You know how dead trees are generally kind of pretty? Like they make a cool silhouette against the sky or add the perfect effect to a foreboding shot in a movie? Well, dead cacti are rather gross. Pretty much all of them are just ugly. I found one that was sort of pretty... because it looked kind of like a tree.

[here's a dead TREE I saw on a family vacation to Hawaii. Gorgeous, eh? Almost makes me look like a good photographer or something!]


[here's the prettiest picture on the web (that I could find) of a dead cactus. If you ask me, it's still pretty ugly and everything cool and morbidly beautiful about it reminds me of a tree.]


[ here's a nasty ugly sick gross yucky one]

Goodbye, readers! I hope your dreams consist of dead trees and not deceased cacti!

christie