Uh hmm..too lazy to get back out and go to church to get ashed with the masses. Instead, I had my own private observance.

Early December, my Mom and brother delivered an amaryllis to me. It finally bloomed a few weeks ago in all its' beautiful red glory. TWO bloom stalks that have slowly shriveled and dried. The bulb will go in the ground, but the dried up foilage got burned to ash and marks my forehead.

40 days. ^j^