I treated myself to three cacti from Dinter Nursery.

 I have always loved cactus. My grandmother, the most beautiful human that ever lived on the planet, was an avid grower of them as well as succulents. I watched her pick the little cacti forming on them and creating a new one from it. My grandfather started the Vancouver Cactus and Succulent Society. (I hope I have the name right) and apparently the charter for this 'new society' way back then is among his things just waiting to be found. When I find it, I will frame it and show it to you!!

This past week I went down island and on my way back I stopped at paradise aka Dinter Nursery and they had three plants I had been eying up and/or looking for for ages. A large Golden Barrel Cactus, an Old Man of the Andes Cactus and a Crassula Ovata "Gollum" of the jade family. Very similar to jades, but the leaves form tubes. I have been eyeing them up for years.