Rick - so true: "Enantiodromia, I hope they never invent a pill for it! If you can't enjoy a thing AND its opposite, what CAN you enjoy?"
I'm up for a while - bumps in the night going on outside and a few innocuous (I hope) goings-on not worth mentioning woke me up. It's a pretty night to sip ice water on the porch. With respect to enantiodromia, am okay for now with night rustlings and since can't go back to sleep am happily pursuing my flowers-in-art hobby in my ocd, full-out obsessed way.
Which brings me to a flower I just found in an 18th century still life by Paul Theodor van Brussel (1754 - 1795) -
http://art-and-things-of-beaut... (never mind this link's misspelling Brussel's surname)
In this painting is a Crested Cockscomb (Celosia cristata) that is ivory with a dusky, dark rose picotee. Might anyone know a source of this coloring in a cockscomb? I know about the Kurume Series, but they don't have this particular bicolor, as far as I can tell. I could grow it in a pot next summer that would be carried back indoors at night, per vandal. A few tiny plants could perch around the edge of the pot beneath it.
Thanking y'all in advance for any help.
