I entered the month in which are 4 years since I wrote on this platform and I can't believe that they passed so quickly. You know the saying ... like they were yesterday!
Also this good month, our colleague, Denise, 
If I'm still here and I'm really happy about it, it's because of Denise, who twice pulled me back here. When I gave up because it was hard at first (problems with my poor English, unusual writing, lack of interest from others for my blogs, not even symbolic rewards ...) Denise intervened and convinced me to stay. I can't even thank her enough for that!
One of the forms of gratitude was my participation in the challenges that Denise created and supported, of which #MarketFriday is the best known and has been running for almost four years. This challenge has been and is very helpful for hundreds of colleagues, especially newcomers, to have a topic for their posts and, in particular, to make sure that someone reads, comments, and votes on them.
As gratitude is still a rare bird, lately, overwhelmed by the multitude of communities and proposals, I have not posted in #marketfriday. Of course, Denise understood the cause, but that doesn't excuse me.
Now, in this anniversary month for the two of us, I will resume participating in this beautiful and quite difficult challenge.
Because Denise is a big flower lover and one of the best flower photographers, she invented another challenge and tag, #alwaysaflower, I will write about a small flower market.
My wife goes to the hairdresser once a month and, fortunately, this hairdresser is close to two places that I really like, this little flower shop and a park, a small park famous for Egyptian lotus flowers. Of course, I think it is understood that I take her to the hairdresser and then I have an hour to visit the park and the flower shop.
The walk through the park ends with hundreds of photos, many used in my posts, and from the small flower shop, I always buy at least one flower for my little yard.
Although it seems an insignificant place, this small flower shop always has special flowers, of quality and, importantly, not expensive. Because often the flowers bought from such florists, once in the garden wither and die. Most of the time due to our inexperience, we take some flowers from a place where they are well cared for and fed and we plant them somewhere where we forget about them, without water and food.
Many of the flowers are displayed directly on the sidewalk, of course, this is also marketing ... who can resist going through the flowers and not be attracted to buy at least one.
Although I recognize their beauty and exoticism, I am not a fan of cacti. I go on to look for something that fits my yard.
I am looking, of course, for perennial flowers that are resistant to the winter cold in Bucharest. These blue flowers, I forgot to keep the label and I don't know what they are called, caught our attention. We really like their color, they look a little like lavender.
Hard to choose when there are many but in the end, we decided.
Then I saw some carnations. Very good for the yard. I couldn't get past these without buying.
With the mission accomplished, all that remained was to admire the other flowers. We already have many of them in the yard. Such as hydrangea.
Also this bougainvillea and hibiscus...
... and petunia, of course!
The wife finished with the hairstyle (I don't see a big change, but that depends on how much we men can understand these pleasures of women) and would buy the whole flower shop. We can't, for obvious reasons and not only because it wouldn't fit in our little yard already too full of vegetation and flowers.
This is the flower shop on the sidewalk. Beyond the crowded boulevard is Circus Park, the lotus park.
Now I am going to show you how the flowers arrived in our garden. Unfortunately, it has been raining almost continuously for two weeks and this has affected all the flowers.
I think they have integrated well and I look forward (but, in fact, I'm in no hurry) to see what they will be like next year.
In posts for or inspired by Denise must be ... #alwaysaflower!
Because it's the month of roses, a small tribute from my yard.
