Eternal Peace -- Is It That Much To Wish For...

Wishing you all of you a Happy Memorial Day. For those of you who kindly visit my humble blog from outside the USA, Memorial Day is a day for remembering the service and dedication of the armed forces. I hope a day will come in this world when no one will need the use of any kind of forces. So, in memory of all those men and women and in hope of eternal peace, I present these beautiful flowers. Why do we get moved by beauties of flowers? There is no evolutionary advantage in being mesmerized by the beauties of such tiny, insignificant flowers which you might not even notice while walking tall. Most of our habits, characteristics and senses have developed due to some kind of evolutionary-requirement reason. Do all of us get moved by such beauties? Or only few of us? If only few of us get affected so deeply by their beauties, then why? What do we have that we get affected and others don't? Such fleeting beauties can only be the apt symbols for eternal peace as enjoying their beauty we hopefully realize the insignificance of our short-lives, uselessness of wars and bickering, and that our lives should also radiate beauty.



I do not what these flowers are or where they have come from. They have suddenly appeared this year in my flower-bed, vegetable-bed, around the green-house and in lawns. In the first picture you can see how the buds look like. The buds and the flowers grow on tall stalk. They bloom in huge quantity as you can see in the last picture; the whole area/ground gets covered in their bloom. The blooms closes when the sun sets; with the sunrise and rise in temperature, the bloom opens. I am not sure if it is evident in the picture or not but the beauty of these tiny masses of flower is absolutely exquisite. It could be some kind of crocuses but I have never seen them blooming so late, and blooming profusely on the hottest days or in mid-day when the sun overhead is shining brightly. Also, I have never seen crocuses bloom on such long stalks. But, I might be wrong. Do any of you know what they might be? The long weekend was also spend in doing lots of garden-related works which will become another post.