Goal #18 Flowers in the Pot

     Here are my yet to be grown flowers in the pot.

     I bought some flower bulbs of various kinds. At least one of them has to be a red (or pink) tulip, and one of them a hyacinth. I have read something about that having pets and growing plants takes away the stress and helps you live a better, happier life. So, I've decided to grow some flowers this spring and I've bought a fish or two for my grandmother to make her happy.

     I bought them a couple of days before the New Year's Eve and I had  been planning to plant them ever since. What kept me from doing that was that I was a bit too busy and lazy to go buy a pack of soil at the flower shop, which, by the way, is not even one block away. Then last week there was a snow storm on Monday which hit Istanbul a big time. The life just stopped for everybody and nobody left home unless necessary. And I was one of those people who did not take one step out of the door. When everything was back to normal, snow melting, cars moving through the city safely, pupils going to school with grumpy faces after a few days of snow break, I decided to complete an unfinished business and went to buy soil.

     Shopping for soil and bulbs part was easy. What took some time was to dig out the cactuses we had have in the pots that I wanted to use. I spent quite some time cutting frozen cactuses and digging them out of frozen soil. After all that was finished (ok I admit it is not finished, 'cause there are still a bunch of roots in the soil which I did not bother to dig out completely since I could not wait any longer to see my future flowers in the pot. I just hope those cactuses do not grow back and kill my tulips), I waited for the soil to get unfrozen, and then I've planted the bulbs and watered them.

     The photograph above is the first shot I took for the series. My plan is to take a series of photographs documenting the growth of my new babies. I'm hoping to witness some beauty that I, myself, would help coming into existence. I think if I achieve this goal, it will be a great motivation for my future goals. The reason why I will try to take photos of it regularly is because I believe it will help me establish an order to my disorganized life.

     (I sometimes get inspiration to write in fairly good English (for a foreigner). Usually those are the times when I read a book in English. Currently I'm reading The HOBBIT!!! It's marvelous!)