Welcome to today's post, I am taking part in a 31 day blog challenge where I post everyday in October. I love creating challenges for myself and joining ones by others. My challenge for the rest of the month is to reflect on some of the series I created for myself and inspiration that I have taken away.
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Today I am going to concluding on the topic of 365 Days of Colour
The 365 Days of Colour was born as I realized that I had been photographing flowers over a long period of time and they were sitting on my desktop lost in the digital atmosphere and not being a blessing either to me or anyone else for that matter. I decided to create a yet another challenge, and for me I guess the challenges are more like projects, where I am able to get them completed because there is something driving me to get it done somehow. I had decided not only to post an image but would couple it with an inspiring quote a scripture and a reflection for each post.
My main aim was to bring color and beauty to people all around the world regardless to whether they had a garden or not. They could still enjoy the beauty of nature and perhaps seeing the image would cheer them up.I did the challenge for a year bringing elements together and sharing and it taught me about discipline in sticking through the journey as simple as the task was it was also about showing up if not for myself then for someone else. There are hundreds of thousands of beautiful flowers around the world, so many varieties and colours and each county has flowers that only grow in that particular climate. When was the last time you stopped and looked at your own environment and really took it in.We can also look at what we call weeds, that we hastily pull out of the ground and see the beauty in the flowers that they produce. If they grew in the right places we wouldn't have a problem. We can see even with the weeds how the colours also find themselves in our everyday lives.I now have a tropical garden, that I can grow things in and they do seem to grow really quickly because of the climate. I am amazed at the number of different plants that I have managed to grow in the space and over the year with the list getting bigger. My aim eventually is to document each with their medicinal and nutritional benefits. There are some growing (among them some pretty weeds) that I have not yet been able to identify and so will keep on learning and sharing as I go. Please come and visit my Gardening channel, and see the updates that I will be posting about the growth.Tomorrow I will share my writing challenge with you. I hope during this month you find some time to challenge, be creative and stretch yourself.
Why not join me each day for the rest of October as we dive into to some exciting challenges and look at ways in which they can impact on your own life. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow, it is never too late to start! The main thing is to take one step at a time and do something that you find interesting.Stay blessed and be a blessing.Ps: If you are on a budget and would like to check out some gardening supplies/books at a discounted price, check out one of the links below:
