I have a weird relationship with flowers. I love flowers! But I'm
learning that not all flowers love me.
When my wife and I are out and about when I see pretty flowers I like
to take pictures of them. I do this in our hometown as well as when
we are traveling short and even long distances. I like to add the
pictures to a flowers photo album in my Google photos at and then I
view those photos on our wall screen parentheses otherwise known as
RTV). That way we have beautiful things to look at on our screen when
it's on and we don't want to be watching actively some show or video.
I like to grow flowers, but they're not my favorite thing to grow. I
have a Christmas cactus the wind kept alive for several years, but I
never get it to bloom at Christmas. I have a pitcher plant that its
blooms are like pictures that have liquid in them that catch flies so
that the plant can digest them. But I can't get the thing to bloom
and so it's just a really long line. I also have what my parents
called and loved Lily. It looks like a red starburst on the end of
its stem when it blooms. Typically it only blooms once a year, and
it's a bold thing that we keep in pots so that we can bring them in
during the winter. But is beautiful and it blooms. And it brings
back memories of my father in Florida.
I used to think because of what I saw in my life and the advertising
in my life that the way you really showed love to your wife was to buy
her flowers. The only way that I need to do that was to order them
from a florist. I saw the flowers and grocery stores but I always
thought they were overpriced. And it didn't make much sense to buy
flowers at a grocery store and then come home and hand them to my
wife. Until I got older and figured out that was the best way to do
it!
But I got away from that when I ordered flowers from a florist trying
to get my moving target life and missed repeatedly. I had several
times where my $50 purchase sat on the front porch for days because we
typically don't use our front door for our comings and goings. And
after a long period where I didn't buy any flowers at all I figured
out that buying them at the grocery store and bring them home and
handing them to my wife earned me kisses and other expressions of love
and appreciation that was a lot of fun!
Over the years, though, I have learned that there is a certain type of
flower that florists like to include in their bouquets that my sinus
system reacts strongly to. It's the lily-looking plant. It's very
pretty, but when we have one of those on her table I discovered that
my nose would start running and I would have to constantly blow my
nose until I left the room and was away from the plant for an hour or
so.
Recently we had a death in our family and my wife brought home a
beautiful flower trees that was at the memorial service. It had a lot
of carnations in it and a lot of those Lily flowers and. When she
went to put it in the cab of our truck for the long drive home I
informed her that that would not be riding in the truck with me. So
she ended up putting it in my son's trunk and brought it home. Now
it's in her office and I can't go on her office without sneezing and
blowing my nose for an hour or two after being in there. I guess
she's now found my kryptonite!
But I love flowers! And I love the way those lily flowers look, I
just really don't like the headache and runny nose that they cause for
me.
