Gaudeamus igitur

 Can you see it? A new academic year is beginning!

搬家周年

New leaf on the philodendron I inherited in 2007! I think only the oldest of its confrères might remember that, one year ago today, we all moved here from another world - or maybe that's part of their plant lore!

High rise

The Brooklyn philodendron has put out its first Manhattan leaf.

Turning

Just in time, our philodendron's putting out a final Brooklyn leaf.

Swaddling

A new leaf unspools

Unfolding

Wow, the new leaf has brought a friend!

Finger in the wind

It's been forever since this plant risked putting out a new leaf!

Welcome

My flatmate Trevor is finally moving in this weekend! (This sunny room - the brightest in the apartment - will be his bedroom, so one or both of these sofas - inherited from Paul and Alice, who found them on the street - will return to the street.) Three months on my own in this apartment have made me both more eager at his arrival and more anxious about it. But the anxiety is general (sharing what's come to feel like my space with someone else) while the eagerness is particular (what fun to share with him), so while the transition will surely have its tensions a happy ending is assured