What a flower!!!!!

This is a bulb that I got as a birthday gift. I could not believe that it eventually got 8 flowers on it. It is my hope that I will be able to build a big inventory and sell them within a few years. This flower is a Minerva amaryllis. I currently have another one in bloom. The package said the flower was suppose to be Apple blossom, which is a flower with pink in it. Well it bloomed and it is pure white. What a beautiful flower. A can't wait until I see the other flowers. I just hope that they have a seed pod so that I can grow more flowers. It is suppose to be very hard to grow a bulb from seeds I have not had any problems, true I lost a few that first year, but it was my first attempt. I can't wait until they bloom, especially the seeds I started two years ago. It is suppose to take an amaryllis seed at least five years before the bulb is large enough for it to produce a flower.

A New Baby for WHO?

I was looking through my US magazine and read the article about Elton John and his partner David Furnish's new baby. I've got to say before I read the article I was expecting it to be completely different. The thing that got to me was the very end of the article.

Elton and David are donating all proceeds from the licensing of these baby photos to their chosen charities.

That said a lot to me. After reading the article the thought went through my mind here are two people that seem to have their act together. They did say in the article that they had only one nanny. I've read that the famous couples in Hollywood can't have less than three. I think some of these couples figure a nanny for each child that they have. Forget the fact that they could not have the child the natural way they had to go to a doctor and have invetro or what ever it is called. Surrogacy I can understand some women can't have a child but to go invetro when you are perfectly able to have a child the regular way. There is a reason that women run out of eggs, its called getting to old to have children. It makes me sick when I see all these people in their late 50's and 60's having kids. All they are going to do is have the baby and pass it off to a nanny. If the woman can get pregnant the old fashioned way fine, if she does not have any eggs left may bee she should consider not having one that is not really hers to begin with. Adopt a child from a foreign country, or better yet become a foster parent, it's not like these Hollywood people are going to be there the whole time. The foster children will appreciate what you have and not take anything for granted.