It's over

It was fun while it lasted.   The vase full of flowers someone put on one of these tables 3 whole weeks ago is gone.  

It disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared.   We'll never know who put it there and why nor will we know who took it away and why.

What we do know is that as long as the flowers were there, unbothered, day after day, we felt good about it.   Then as they started to die, the fact that we let them do even that undisturbed said good things about us and our little town. 

Secretly I was hoping someone would replace the flowers and I will confess I thought of doing it myself.  But now that it's over I'm glad that didn't happen.  

I liked wondering about these flowers.  I liked the mystery.   

And now that they're gone I even like that.