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. :)
