All my beautiful flowers are gone.  Nooooo!  😭😭 

Seems like yesterday that I bought them.  With the long cold Spring we had, they didn’t get planted until June, so yeah, only a few months.  Then we had a way early hard freeze, and BOOM, all gone.  It will be a long winter staring out my patio door looking at empty tables.  Oh well, nothing I can do about it as I’m not Mother Nature.  😁 

I will have been in this apartment eleven years in December and I’ve always had flowers.  When I first moved in, there was an actual outer wall around my deck and they were lined with planters.  Instead of rebuilding the wooden fences, management just tore them down (cheap bastards), and suddenly I was exposed to everyone walking by.  So I bought tables to replace the fence and loaded them with bright rays of joy. 

I’ve received lots off compliments over them from fellow residents of my building and other people walking by with their dogs. When I used to walk to the bus, before I started working from home, I’d notice that a few balconies had plants on them.  In fact, my neighbor above me had a small vegetable garden on theirs.  But the greenery was far and few between. 

Then, several weeks ago, my sister was brining me back from an appointment and we came in through the east part of our driveway and WOW, there were plants everywhere.  Almost every balcony or patio had some containers.  I’m not sure if it was my display of beauty that inspired them, but if I did, how cool is that?  You never know when something so simple as flowers can change someone’s life.