"The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead."

-W.H. Auden

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

As Above, So Below

After the recent rains, I was surprised to see acres of white flowers spring up overnight. After all, it's the end of a drought-stricken summer, when nearly everything is dead-brown dry and long since given up the ghost.
  


At first (not knowing overmuch about flowers) I thought they were wild onions, but when evening came and clouds of glorious lemony-vanilla scent started wafting from the fields, I realized they must be rain lilies.


In the dark, the fields of luminous white blossoms seemed to mimic the field of stars in the sky. I thought, "as above, so below". 

Although as far as I know, the stars in the sky do not smell like lemony-vanilla. 


It would be pretty awesome if they did, though. :)

1 comment:

  1. That's pretty much what rain lilies do, lurk till it rains and then rush to bloom for a day. I believe they are a species of wild onion, so you'd have been right twice.

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