Tender little flower buds like this one are found on the "prickle bushes" in my yard. I actually never noticed them before. They probably come every spring but this is the first time I took such close note.
This sweet yellow bud is smaller than a pea but yet it blooms forth with abandon to attract insects for pollination...
Of course the thorn is there to protect the vulnerable bud from larger scavengers and invaders -- animals that might eat her because she is pretty -- but does the bud understand that the thorn is there to help?
The bud does what she does but at the same time does she appreciate the reality that something everyone else fears, or at the very least misunderstands, is her protector?
Is it even important that the bud understand this purpose of the thorn or is it enough that she trusts it and so blooms in its presence?
3 comments:
...yield to the natural order of things...
Perhaps she blooms more calmly, more certainly, knowing her guardian is near...
Yes Karen, I *do* think she blooms more calmly knowing her guardian is near -- once she figured out it was "ok" for her to trust *herself* in accepting the help the guardian was providing... :)
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