MOTHERS DAY 2011 CALLI LILLIES

ive never really ever been into flowers much, i like them ok, and i do think they are pretty (when tended by someone who can keep them any other shade than brown, like me) but ive never really had any interest in them, as a thought to tend to, or a decoration.

i can remember all my life, having my grandmother have plants and gardens around me.
shed always take the morning hours to tend to all her flowers. painstakingly picking off any dead leaves, plucking any wild weed, or growth, spraying them down with de-bugger, or fertilizing them.
she took great care of these precious fragile beauties.

i never cared too. i guess, i never picked that trait up from her. oh well.

i can seriously, kill a cactus. if you give me the hardiest, and most durable, and least attendance required, within weeks, the thing will be dead. seriously.

so, im not sure WHY i thought this was a good idea, other than i now have a handy amateur horticulturist for a husband, and i knew if it died i wouldnt need to feel any guilt over it. (i never did anyway, lol)
but for some reason, i thought getting THIS plant would be different. again, im not exactly sure why.

we were hunting the bricks down at the time for the turtles kiddie pool, seeing what we wanted, what we liked, what we could afford...etc.

and i am not a serious fan of the garden center anywhere we ever go, mainly because its got no AC in it...
and we had done our looking...thought we knew what we wanted...

were leaving....

and craig HAD to utter these words:

"well, see anything your interested in?'
seriously? why ask me that? i tend to do crazy things when asked that question.
i guess he already knew i wouldnt really want anything...so asking was safe.

im just now realizing, for the most part, i dont hear that same question if im in a place i actually enjoy...lol

so, it didnt take 2 milliseconds for my brain to trigger the idea that i thought these Calli lilies i had seen were really pretty...
so, i said i liked them.

he assumes id want just any one, no..i like the combined colored ones, they had basic one colored, combined colored, and some deep purple ones (he liked those) and i like the yellow/red ones.

so we picked one out, with a smaller deep purple one as an alternate to the one i liked, cause it was for craig.
went and got potting soil, a pot, some rocks, etc...

i even had an area i wanted this to sit outside.

he cut off some of the straggler shoots and put them in a big galss jar i was saving for pennies (but never used)

there was another reason i chose this particular flower over others i had looked at.
i have a very dear freind of mine, i wont mention her name here, but if she reads this shell know who she is, and to make sure she knows...shes the ONLY one of my friends who has a collection of Cali Lilly pictures in black and white all over her house. ive even contributed to that collection. i try every time im with her to celebrate anything, to get her something in that thinking, so she has something beautiful she loves to look at around her...

anyway, i got it to remember her.

she had to disconnect from me on facebook, because her parents and some of the family on their sides were giving her issues over my friendship with her. as she explained it to me.
i understand.
so, i bought these to have her close to me in a time when we had little to no communication between us.
we still talked, it was in private tho, and not so frequent.

i miss her. think of her often. pray for her allot.

to: "You-Know-Who-You-Are" i love you. our never far from my thoughts.

MICHELLE