From: rchoy@clarify.com (Raymond Choy)
Subject: Re: About flower
Organization: Clarify, San Jose
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:54:21 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.233154.29636@dsg.tandem.com> leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung) writes:
>
>The most beautiful moment of a flower varies among various types. For most
>flowers, it is the moment of full blossom.
>
>I think for roses, the most beautiful moment is when they start but not yet
>enter the blossoming stage. It's that short waiting period. Only a few very
>exceptional roses can transform that beauty of "waiting for blossoming" into
>another kind of beauty when they are in full blossom. Even fewer can maintain
>that beauty or transform it into yet another beauty type to their end of blossom.
>
>Some Chrysanthemums (Gook Fa) are exactly the opposite of roses. The one
>I like most is the Hai(crab) Chau(leg) Gook, whose beauty in the full
>blossom stage is really just a beginning, and the closer to the blossoming
>end, the more stunning is its beauty/spirit. Really Cin Jee Cher York.
>
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>Many people think that the type of flower they love most is the most beautiful 
>type although in reality, few of them actually see more than a couple types. 
>
>Most people love more than one type of flower.
>
>And all people enjoy looking at beautiful flowers, and the enjoyment is
>invariably enhanced considerably when _somebody else_ take care of the flowers.
>(Note the subtle point here: there are flowers (like those on the pavement)
>don't need people's care, but people don't appreciate them, let alone their
>enjoyment being enhanced. Therefore, only a flower that needs people's care
>will the enjoyment of its beauty occur, and only that care is provided by 
>_somebody else_ will the enjoyment be enhanced. There were, of course, flowers
>that are not beautiful but need care, but they must have become extinct long 
>time ago in the evolution process.)
>
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>Bees and butterflies do not visit the same flower at the same time, although
>in the lifetime of a flower, there are usually more than one bees/butterflies
>visiting her. So, bees and butterflies also visit more than one flowers in
>their lifetime except those poor bees/butterflies who visit those insect-
>eating flowers in their "Dai Yat Chi"(first_encounter).
>
>Behind every successful bee, there are more than one flowers.
>
>People tend to think that a beautiful butterfly standing on a blossoming flower
>constitutes a beautiful picture. From the flowers' viewpoint, they also always
>prefer butterflies over bees (and large ones over small ones) to visit them.
>But unlike bees who intentionally visit the flowers, the butterflies appear to
>be on the flowers just by chance. (I always have a hard time to figure out what
>the butterfly tries to do when it stands on a flower.) And of course, what is
>on a blossoming flower is purely determined by what happens to be around when
>the flower blossoms. So, it is not uncommon that some unfortunate flowers end
>up with having a fruitfly on them! That's what we called "Yuan Fun," sigh.
>
>
>Steven
>-- 
>328. Seek opportunity, not security. ...
>        - Life's Little Instruction Book by H. J. Brown, Jr.
>


Yes Steven, Spring is coming and maybe it's a good time to talk about
flowers, butterfly and bees ... :-) (BTW, there were too many lions and 
tigers in schk during Winter that made feel very sick) 


-Raymond Choy-




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