I am so glad I found this forum. It seems like an active and friendly place. Most of all I can ooh and ahh over your plants and mine, talk endlessly about growing plants, my yard, and everyone here seems to understand. I am just loving all the photos here. I am trying hard to share photos here as well. This is a good place for me. A happy place where I can come often and find happy things to make me smile.
It's hard for my other friends who really don't know much about gardening to understand my enthusiasm for gardening. They ask how I can stand the summer heat, or don't you hate raking all those leaves? They don't understand how mowing the lawn or blowing off the debris on my patio makes me happy. They look at their yard as work. I look at my yard as happiness of the purest kind. I am addicted to happiness. I am addicted to this kind of happiness.
When I see a flower, it makes me smile. Even if it isn't in my own garden. Even if it isn't mine. It still makes me smile. Such a gift we have before us! Growing smiles. That's what we do.
This is not an obsession. How can anyone call happiness and obsession? I simply like being happy and I know how to get it. I think everyone deserves to be happy. I think most people like being happy, even the unhappy people. I also think most people are in awe of flowers and green things and secretly, it makes then happy whether they know it or not. I tell you one thing, I know flowers and green things make me happy.
Thanks for having me.
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