My first dairy

Today is the first day of Chinese new year--the year of pig. Such a sunny day today! My family visited the botanical garden and saw lots of orchids flowers.How colorful and elegant are these flowers!* However I also appreciate the cactus around the corner where nobody notices and no cell phone follows.**

I will try to write more english diaries this year.I like the pig year:)

• 歆霏, I'm glad to see you on italki! 
新年快乐！It seems like you had a nice start to the Spring.

*It would be more natural to just say, "These flowers were so colorful and elegant."

** I like this sentence. But I don't completely understand it! Tell me what you mean.

My first dairy entry

* Having 'are' before 'these flowers' sounds more like an older English writing style. More natural to have the 'are' at the end, or go with Steve's suggestion which is more likely used in spoken English.

** I think this is what you might be trying to say here :) Cacti is the plural of cactus, I'm assuming the garden has several cacti and therefore plural is appropriate.