You don't bring me flowers...

Ever since I saw that this week's You Capture theme was "flowers"

I couldn't stop singing that song.

Of course, I could only remember the first two lines of the song.
"You don't bring me flowers
You don't sing me love songs..."
The rest was buried somewhere in the recesses of my memory where I keep Barbara Striesand songs.
You know... songs that you oddly know, but don't really want to know.

I just looked up the song on youtube.
It's depressing... I need to send it back to the nether regions of my brain.
Blech...

Besides, I've always been a strong believer in
"Get your own damn flowers!"

But even I don't bring my own self flowers anymore.

There's a perfectly good reason for that.

I'm a serial.  flower.  murderer.

I just can't keep a plant alive.

EVER.

So... if someone were to bring me flowers,

I tend to prefer the already cut kind,

since someone already cut them and I can't be held responsible for their eventual deaths.

However, if you bring me a potted plant,

I will feel responsible for it's growth and well-being

and will feel all sad and guilty when the inevitable happens,

You know...when it finally decides that life in my house isn't worth living so it just shrivels up and dies.

It's sad.

So all that is to say that I had exactly ONE flower in my yard that I could take a picture of.

It's a stubborn little rose bush that is scraggly and ugly, but it also won't die, so FINE!

I took it's picture... it posed nicely.

Then I edited the heck out of it.

The first one is SOOC, the rest are variations on the theme.

Now I just need to find a way to kill that dang song!