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1st and last summer...

About A week ago, I walked out of house to be welcomed by a bloom. I waspretty shocked as I had no idea that anything remotely pretty occupied the such of dirt at the bottom of my stairs beside my walkway. I was intrigued, so I took a picture.

I assumed it would be no more than a poor excuse for a mini garden causing me to destroy it in the coming days. I also realized that this is the first summer I've spent in my house, which is why I had no recollection of the bloom. The next few days were spent stalking this bloom. Every time I left the house, I would stop to admire it and take a photo. I didn't know why i was taking the pictures...i just took them.

Anyway, the bloom that had turned into a beautiful ugly flower brought something different to my life. An appreciation...or at least something like it. I will put it out there that I hate nature. The bugs, heat, and unknown are just too much for me. However, this flower has ben growing with no help from me and I guess you could say that I was the owner. I have developed a sense off pride for it...... although not enough to make me want to help it in any way.

The beauty of the blooming process is that it can signify quite a few things in life that are there one second and not the next... or vice versa. Adolescence to adulthood. Single to involved. Stable to uncertain. Day dream to reality. Loving it to hating it... and so so much more.

I think the flower knows that it had done what it was supposed to do for me and it has begun to descend into the depths of flower heaven... or I've gone crazy and the flowers grow and die every year like clockwork. I'm going to go with the former.This will be the last summer that I will see my little bloom grow as i will not be the owner off this space next year. Maybe someone else will be inclined to nurture it.