Flowers of Spring. My Actifit Report Card: January 19 2025

The image above is a picture I took of a rhododendron in my backyard a few years ago. Rhododendrons are a beautiful plant, especially in spring. Once they bloom with all kinds of flowers, they also seem more sturdy and flower a little bit longer than their smaller counterparts: azaleas.

Working on landscaping and growing flowers and tomatoes are some of my hobbies. Below is an image of my backyard from a few years ago:

Flowers are one of the things that make me look forward to the sprint time in Washington every year. Tulips deserve a separate mention as they are one of my favorite flowers. In Washington state, there is even an annual tulip festival. I first attended it when my son was around year old, about twenty-three or twenty-four years ago.

I have a lot of images of tulips, so I will probably make it into a separate post. Visiting the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is a fun activity if you are in Washington state in spring.

I returned to Tulip festival many times since that first visit, more than two decades passed, but the festival remains the same... I still remember our son running around the rows of tulips when he was three or four years old, and he is twenty-four years old now.

Then after a long break, I visited the festival with our daughter. She was probably around six or seven years old back then, and it was somewhat of a circle of life feeling. I am sure after we are gone, the beautiful tulips will still flower in these fields...

But while I am here I will continue to enjoy planting flowers and doing landscaping. On the image below, you can see a banana tree I have planted. Surprisingly, these banana trees do come back every year despite us having temperatures below freezing.

Naturally, the kind of banana trees that you can plant in Washington state don't produce edible bananas.

As far as steps count as this is an Actifit post, I did manage to do over twelve thousand steps yesterday. I didn't work out or go for a walk, but just doing house chores and going to Costco resulted in this quite respectable number! Today I hope to do a weight lifting workout. Usually, our son comes over, but he could not make it here today.

BTW, the only game I have played besides Splinterlands and some tetris in my childhood days was a mobile game Call of Duty heroes.

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