My task for this section of the course is to upload a photo and then detail what we hope to achieve over the next few weeks - I would like to use blogging as a way to record the details of photos I take so that when I come to scrap them I wont struggle to recall the things I want to say and share, I am guilty of having photos sitting in albums and drawers that havent seen the light of day for months, even years and the thought of scrapping them makes me put them back where I found them.
I also wish to achieve confidence in posting here on my personal blog and also on the blog attached to my online store The Stamp Spot - I seriously lack that confidence and ability so blogging regularly here I hope will give me a little confidence .... maybe a lot!
I chose this photo as it represents quite a bit to me, yes its a stock standard lavender bush but everytime I see and pass this bush (which is in a garden closest to my front door so I pass it often) it never looks the same, the foliage changes from grey to green depending on the time of day and whether it has rained or been watered, there is a constant hum around it with many bees, and it is a testament to adversity - something everyone has faced at some point in their lives - no matter how much or how little water, fertilizer, weeding, trimming this plant gets it has survived for at least 4 of the 6 years that I have lived here. It is not in its original location and many a person told me it wouldn't survive being shifted from the back of the house to the front - it did and it has thrived, year after year.
I liken that to life in general, we dont always remain in our original locations - town or city or country of birth, facing little or lots of what life throws at us - health, illness, births, deaths, employment, financial struggles, personal growth or challenges - I for one intend to thrive no matter what.
Yes this humble lavender plant by my front door is more than just a plant to me.
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