Blooming Bachelors

Today I am very excited. Over night, two of my Bachelor Buttons decided to finally bloom and show off their glory! I can not get over how beautiful they are!!! One blue, and one pink.

Aren't they gorgeous?! I know I got a bit carried away taking pictures, but I really could not help myself. :)

Spring is in bloom!

I have been having a horrible past couple of weeks. I don't have time for anything, and my apartment looks a mess.

About a month and a half ago, I started working for McDonalds, not the best job in the world, but it pays the bills. When I am not working at McDonalds, I am at school, and when I am not at school, I am at my observation site. My life turned very chaotic very fast.

Yesterday was the worst. I worked a seven and a half hour shift, came home to a load of homework, and group projects (not to mention a very messy apartment), and my computer decided to completely die. She just froze up... I wanted to cry.

I ended up calling home, and then driving home (about 1 hour and 20 minutes away from my apartment) to have my Dad fix the problem.

While packing for home, however, I noticed this out on my balcony:

My allysum finally bloomed! I stopped everything and immediately took pictures. Suddenly, for 5 minutes, my computer, my homework, my work, everything... didn't matter. They were so pretty. To top off my excitement, I also noticed that my bachelor buttons are also going to start blooming soon! About four or five of my plants look like this:


I am anticipating the day when I step out onto my balcony and see it in full bloom... you can bet your socks I will be taking pictures when that day comes.
All in all, even though I had a very bad day, things not going right, and work not getting done, I was still able to see and appreciate God's little wonders. So despite all... I am happy.

A Sprout's Beginning, and Fun Fun Fun at the Zoo!!!

Two important things happened today.

First, one of my bulbs (Dahlia) has finally started to sprout (17 days after planting), and second, I got to go to the Zoo!

See, there is the little sprout sticking up through the dirt. I can't wait until She starts to bloom. I love my plants!

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As mentioned above, I went to the Zoo today. To be more specific, I went to the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson. My Mom and her girl scouts were going, and so I tagged along for the fun of it.

I was very surprised at how crowded it was today! It seemed as if everyone in Tucson was there... well, everyone who had kids that is.

Anyways, I did take a few pictures, and yes, I know they are blue, they were taken with my camera phone, as I forgot to take my real camera with me.

For more images, then you can look at my Flickr page. :)

Spring Planting

Every year around June and July I always see such beautiful gardens on display in magazines, in blogs, and in random pictures around town. I alway think of how wonderful it would be to have a garden of my own. Unfortunately for me, when I see those things and am inspired to start one, it is too late in the year.

This year I decided to fix that problem, and so in February I bought myself some seeds at Wal-mart, and a Greenhouse.

This particular green house only cost me about 6 dollars, and it comes with 75 little plots for plants.

I ended up buying four types of seeds for it, Alyssum, Assorted bachelor buttons, Blue bachelor Buttons, and Forget Me Nots.

4 Days after Planting:

My Plants are starting to Sprout! This is very exciting!

I am still keeping the lid on my greenhouse, but as you can see, their little sprouts are starting to poke up out of the dirt!

My Allysum still have not sprouted, these are just the Benjamin Buttons sprouting up.

2 Weeks and 4 Days

I am in love with how my plants are looking right now! Unfortunately, some of them started to lean and almost lay flat against the dirt. To remedy that, I stuck toothpicks and used sewing thread to put them in an upright manner. Hopefully this will work out.

All the plants seem to be doing well, except for the Alyssum, a couple have already died on me. Hopefully I can get a couple of them to grow well though.