While driving by the Applegate Trail wayside yesterday – you know – the little park by the Centennial covered bridge – a spot of color caught my eye. It didn't fit in, but that didn't matter because it was pretty.
I stopped and had a closer look, and here's what it turned out to be. Flowers! In a vase.
They were placed there for reasons unknown, but obviously there was a reason. They didn't just happen to be there all cut and arranged in the vase filled with water. They were deliberately put there.
Don't you wonder why?
Did a couple have a picnic there, then realize they weren't able to take the flowers along with them wherever they were heading next?
Did someone put them there just because?
Will the person who put them there keep caring for them or have they gone, leaving the flowers to fend for themselves?
Will someone move the flowers to a different table?
Will someone come and take the flowers because they cannot resist their beauty?
How long do you think they will stay there?
They've been there for two days now and of course I will be monitoring them. When I checked on them today, some of the scruffier residents of GroveAtopia were sitting at the table and I wondered if they would take the flowers.
They didn't.
Sometimes the mysterious, aimless people who come out at night in GroveAtopia break things. What if they break this vase, depriving the flowers of their water and hastening their demise?
You don't know the reason why these flowers are here and neither do I. We also don't know what the future will bring for them.
Come with me. Together let's hope for the best for these flowers.
And while we're at it let's hope for other similar gestures of beauty to appear at random, where or when we least expect it.
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