Lovely, Tara. I have several and note that one used to bloom right on time at Christmas -- now it has begun blooming at Thanksgiving. I think it might have had something to do with its move from Illinois to Arkansas.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam