It's Alive

What do I know about gardening? Not a lot.

I just like gardens. And flowers. In fact, I often get distracted by flowers. And trees. And gardens. I feel absolutely no guilt interrupting a conversation that might be taking place on a sidewalk, just to make a comment about a flower.

It could be as obvious as, "look at that flower."

I know what I mean. And I know the intensity of how I mean it. I trust that my fellow (who I am most often walking with on sidewalks) knows it too.

I got the idea to plant flowers and herbs on my balcony. I had a lot of fun doing it too. It was a lot like making mud pies, I thought. I go out there in the evening and I talk to my geraniums and coo to them and snip off their wilted bits and give them a little shower with my spray bottle.

Sometimes I put that 20/20 powder in their water, just to give them an extra boost. And, I've got to say, they make me amazingly happy these fuschia plants in their silver boxes. They are my pets.