Every year I make the same resolution. I will learn or do at least one new thing. It is pretty easy and I have managed to accomplish this for the last 5 years. Today I tended to my flowers. Gardening is one of the new hobbies I decided to start last year. I was inspired in November of 2008 when my dad gave me a few Poinsettias to have at my place in Palm Springs. The plant pictured here is one of the them (the other is alive too but this was the better picture). They both started blooming in the last month. During the summer all the leaves grow in a beautiful deep green after the red leaves fall off. As winter rolls around again we get the beautiful red leaves back and they should be here through March or April. My little plants sit on the patio table outside the kitchen window. Behind them are the two large rose bushes that I managed to bring back to life this year (one bloom pictured, they grow as big as my hand). In the morning, before fixing my coffee, I look out on them and they remind me to admire the beauty in the world that is all over but often taken for granted. That is a resolution worth keeping.
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