Everlasting Dahlias Bring Pleasure.

This is the 7th blip I've made of these flowers since I was given one the 18 October last year .Still there ,The 23rd I bought Dahlias on the last day at the gardens where a Polish gentleman grows such  &  other plants. Then followed  27Oct ,5Nov , 21st Nov ,and 7Jan this year .I've had fun noting the changes and 'feeling them' . Today I bought a cylindrical glass vase ,.carefully snipped the now very wooden stems and found myself wishing the sun wouldn't shine quite so much through my ceiling to floor windows ...I may not be a Dancing Queen but know this year I'll be a Dahlia Queen