Plants

I handed our key to the maid. We were going out for two days. I called her up later and once again reminded her  to come for my plants. Water them for me. I have a small Christmas tree amongst my plants..not because I bought it for Christmas. I had gone to buy a rose plant and basil to teach my son different types of herbs and shrubs. There in the row two months past Christmas  stood this small plant in neglect. We got it home. It seems very happy in my other plants company.

Gokarna is a blue flower from my childhood garden. I saw it after many years many many years here in Mumbai for the first time in our complex garden. The creeper brought my childhood blue flowers in our garden. Every morning I walked I looked at the flowers and smiled. On that weekend my kids were playing in the garden , I showed them the flowers. Then we picked up the seed pods from the creeper. I made my kids plant the seeds with all the love young people have. 

I watered and waited. Small creepers became little bigger creepers. But for days no flowers for our creepers. I loved the plant still. We were going to be out of town for 48 hours. Like this time and every other time I called up my maid a couple of times to please come and water my plants.

Tired but after a very good trip we came back.. I opened the door as husband was carrying our bags. The first thing I saw was a blue gokarna. Our creeper's first. On our trip  we had visited a shiva temple. .. that too from my childhood place and refernce