Guess while this is all going to heck I have at least ONE confession I must spill pertaining to this blog in particular;

The Lily icon/avatar I use? The original plants/bulbs have been dead/gone from my gardens for at least 2+ years (possibly 4 years). Either due to the odd winters we had or due to hungry animals digging around the area (or possibly during the early start of the Red Lily Beetle infestations), the cultivar declined down to only a few bulblets, which also eventually perished. Doubt I could or would get them again. While they were very sturdy plants I honestly do not know what cultivar they were- when purchased they were labelled as Lilium nepalense which of course I discovered they were not (it took 2-3 years before they even matured to flowering size did I finally discover they were mislabelleds).

I keep the avatar as is partially due to ~personal branding~, the fact that white is a very compatable colour for “holiday/event avatar edits”, as well as for the fact that it’d be hard to find a good flower to change to for the blog’s banner (which has that lily as the centerpiece) if I could even find the original source PSD file to do so.