Monday 11 January 2016

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?


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16 comments:

  1. For some reason I always thought you were in north Qld, but from this post I'm guessing SA somewhere because I saw the Spud flower on the news and I know it was in Adelaide ... and to think I would have seen you on TV, I just didn't know it! I don't have any concrete goals other than to continue what I'm doing now, though I should finish my Dip Dig Mktg this year, and hope to book some overseas travel for 2016.

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    1. Oh, you so had it right the first time. I am in north QLD but I kind of love that me having this flower on my back door made my whereabouts confusing. This one is in Cairns, they have a few with different names but this one, their oldest is called Spud. Others have much more heroic sounding names. Overseas travel sounds exciting and finished things that are on the go is always good too. Have fun doing that.

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  2. I love botanical gardens. Such great public spaces.

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    1. Yes, they can be lovely spaces to use. This one gets used for lots of entertainment and markets once a month.

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  3. Beautiful pictures. I heard this flower stayed like this for only a short while and really stinks.

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    1. Thank you! Yes, the flower only has a short life and it lets off a stink every now and again, heating up the center part and then letting off a smell.

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  4. Sounds like a very exciting year ahead for you Anne. Wishing you only the best.
    You should embrace your goals of selling photos and writing childrens' books ... and just do it!
    And what an amazing flower!

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    1. Thank you! It will certainly be a very full and exciting year with changes.

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  5. Anne, I've just spent all afternoon trying to add an 'About' page to my blog. I notice you seem to have exactly the same problem as me, in that you click on the 'about' link but it takes you nowhere. Have you come across any solutions?

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    1. Hey Anne, sorry about that! Whatever I did I'm now able to see both your and my pages! Technology! Sorry.

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    2. I fiddled with mine last night. When I checked it it wasn't working (maybe it was just blogger). I took it off and then put it back and that seems to work now. Maybe you somehow solved our problems. By the way, does that mean you might be joining the blogging world again ... no pressure ;)

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    3. Oooh you are back ... you weren't in my feed but now you are :)

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  6. What an interesting plant!! Good luck with all your hopes, dreams and goals for 2016! All the best!

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    1. It is interesting and thank you. The same back to you for your goals and working out what to do next.

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  7. I just love seeing your part of the world. I haven't see the titan arum, but I used to work in a garden that probably had one of it's cousins, it was very similar, but smaller and smelled of rotting meat. The flies liked it!
    Love that you got there to take photos of it flowering :)

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  8. You certainly have a big, adult sounding kind of year planned Anne! I hope the wedding preparations aren't too stressful for you and that you have a wonderful year. Your photos are always gorgeous so I do hope you find a way to sell them (I sadly have no idea about that as I'm a crap photographer myself!!!)

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