Flowers
Not only the cultivated ones in parks and gardens, unfolding immaculate petals on a terrace or trellis, and not just the wild ones, kissed by elegant birds in jungle foliage, or brightening roadsides and meadows, blossoming anyplace that anything can blossom, but thanks also to flowers blooming in paintings, on carpets, pottery, fabrics of dresses and draperies or wherever the real or invented colors and shapes of flowers lift the mood of a scene, as they are snipped from bushes, gathered in cor
