ZZ plant for ABC Wednesday

In the icon corner stands the ZZ plant (Zamioculcas, Common name "Zanzibar Gem") and it is tauted as the plant you can ignore.  I have had mine for six years.   Originally I bought it for one of the Carnegie Center galleries where we had so much to do we needed a plant that didn't require too much attention.  So we had rubber plants and philodendron and then the ZZ plant.  It was perfect!
Since it had gotten use to art, it needed such a corner in my house.

And there are Zs galore this week at ABC Wednesday.  And they will not put you to sleep!

The Serbian "White Angel"

Sometime in the spring and summer of 1969 when I was living in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (today Serbia), I found and purchased this small reproduction of a portion of the Resurrection fresco from the Milaseva Monastery in southwestern Serbia.   Called the "White Angel," some believe it is Gabriel telling the women, "He is not here."   I was and remain taken with it and all these years later it hangs in my house and anchors the palm from each year's Palm Sunday at St. Gregory's Abbey (where Abbey Rose came from).  For more about the Abbey, visit their homepage: http://www.saintgregorysthreerivers.org/
For more about the Milaseva Monastery and the efforts to save the medieval art it houses check this site: http://srpskoblago.org/Archives/Mileseva/index.html