A Steemydave Introduction

Hello all!! My names Dave and this is my introductory post.

I was turned on to the Steemit community a few months ago when my fiance @kaelci raved about how fantastic it was. Said that I should join and start writing myself, but I always seemed to chicken out at the last moment and never get around to it. Well, no more!!

I plan on joining in on the gardening and landscape topics as that is what I do for a living, and because expressing my creativity by transforming a space into a beautiful garden has been my deepest and most satisfying passion.

As I write this I'm currently sitting on comfortable picnic bench in a botanical garden in the heart of Brisbane. Dappled afternoon sunlight casts hypnotic patterns of shadow across my field of view, while simultaneously backlighting and setting aglow rows of luscious, tropical purple and pink Cordyline. Off in the distance I can hear a waterfall and a Cookabura laughing somewhere. A cool breeze intermittently wafts the fresh scent of the nearby pond and its waterlilies past me. A persistent piebold colored Ibis wanders near my feet searching for a treat getting ever closer to sampling my shoelace.

Later today i plan on starting a post cataloging the spectacular tropical blooms I've managed to take photos of while here. Describing each blossom and why they tickle my fancy to the reader.

If i can be candid for a moment I should tell you a secret. The real reason I'm here writing on Steemit. My fiance is a wonderful writer. It's her passion and life's work. She holds Steemit and the art of writing very dear. I, on the other hand, am a amateur writer with not even a crumb of talent. However, I also must spend months on end away from her and our modest home to work. My hope is that by me being on Steemit, partaking in my partners passion, I can connect with her on a deeper level and understand her more than I could with simple phone calls while separated by 10,000 miles of ocean. I can escape briefly into a world she's created and in exchange she can skip merrily through adventures I write here too. So that although were far apart, we can connect in more ways than one.

I have a few other goals here at Steemit. For instance, I spend half my time in the bountiful hinterlands of Queensland, Australia. I'd love to one day make it as a member of @teamaustralia and add my experiences there to help color in their already vibrant roster of members.

I'm even going to try my hand at writing Fiction. No guarantees any of it will be readable but I'm going to try anyways. To balance things out I plan to tell stories of trips to strange and far off places around the world that I've been on and other more curious events that have left me mystified despite my best efforts to understand them.

Anyways, that should about do it for introductions. I better get writing. Hope to see and befriend like minded folks in my future endeavors here in the Steemit community.

Best,

Steemydave