Goals with Greens

It is that time of year when people are making resulutions and goals for the coming year.

Well I've been there, done that already.

Basically our goals for the year involve all those personal goals that feel very adult like, like buying a place to call our own, getting married (this seems way too hard to organise) and babies (not getting any younger here).

Then there are the job goals. Mr Sparky is looking to setting up his own business during the year, dipping his toes in, and me, well I would like a change and sleep.

I am sure our goals will change and evolve over the year. That seems to be how it goes.

For me though, just me by myself ... I want to take photos of some new places, spend time with family, to survive planning a wedding and to stress less over stuff. I also want to craft more, read more, blog more, wear sunscreen more, look after myself better and to just enjoy life. Oh, and I want to try and remember photo challenges. Good luck with that one.

I have this secret little wish to try selling photos but have no idea where to start on that and then there is that other secret wish to write children's books but I can't think of anything so we will just leave them alone for now, maybe. I guess they aren't so secret now. 

So speaking of the goal to take photos of new places and things, last Friday I did just that. 

Well, I kind of did that.

I headed to the Botanic Gardens (old place) to see a certain flower which is in the new fernery. I hadn't been there since it opened. Come to think of it, I didn't even know it was finished.

The flower I went to see was a little popular and known as 'Spud'.

'Spud' is a corpse flower or Titan Arum and at 2.82m tall he is the tallest to flower in Australia.

And apparently he is a little stinky.

Well I must have missed the stinky phase.

Actually on the news they said 'it builds up and then releases'.

While I was there the same man very politely told someone who asked 'it farts every now and again'.

It sounds like any 10yr old. Did I mention that 'Spud' is 10yrs old. He also hasn't flowered for about three years so I guess that is why this is a bit newsworthy.

Oh by the way, that means I was on the news. I was in the background taking photos. Imagine that.

It was interesting to see a corpse flower showing off. I saw one of Spud's brothers a couple of years ago in the old fernery, but at the end of flowering.

Have you ever seen a Titan Arum?

While I was in the fernery I also took some photos of some pretty orchids in flower.

I'm glad they finally finished the new building. It certainly looks better than the old one.

It was quite nice in the new fernery, although sweat dripping hot. I guess the plants like it that way.

What plans and goals do you have for this year? Anything life changing?
What would you love to see happening on Grit and Giggles?