Love and Light to you Suzie, very pleasing to read

It sure does! Flowers are the reason we have such a great variety of plants and plant products for food and sustenance. Most plants flower.

It is been another tough summer in our backyard. The garden and flowers have needed constant watering because of the drought conditions punctuated infrequently by flooding downpours. This spring, workmen completely mowed and uprooted the previous year's growth in the power line right-of-way behind the house. For a while all I saw was dirt through the slats of our fence. This morning, I saw flowers peeking above the 6 foot fence! After only two months of growth, wild lantana has regenerated and reached the height of at least 6'5", bringing many butterflies and bees to the area, free of expensive water, at no charge. In the fall, migrating hummingbirds will find this wild flowering plant a tasty treat for their upcoming flight across the Gulf of Mexico.

Ron

Beautiful, Suzie!!!! I read this as a metaphoric poem about a person's life. All of us are like delicate flowers in life, we receive rain, storms, heat, and whatever the weather life thrown at us and yet during our lifetime we are still standing upright strong...until our demise. Yet our petals (i.e. our children and grandchildren) will cover the ground to make this world a more beautiful place.

That is how I've read this poem!!! Beautiful and well written, Suzie!!!!!

Sandie

I must have read it wrong. I didn't think this was a tribute to the sixties. Eh, wrong again.

The flower children from the 1960s are probably dancing in the streets over this tribute! Well, at least those who still are able to dance. Or find their way around in all those petals. Peace. Love. And let the sunshine in!