What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Does anyone remember the 1978 remake of ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ – the one with Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy Brooke Adams and Veronica Cartwright? It’s one of my favorite movies – creeped the beejeebies out of me when I first saw it – maybe because I’d had a nightmare almost exactly like it just a few months before I saw that film the first time.

It had rained most all day, the day I discovered the interesting little flowers that are the subjects of this post (remember the abundance of RAIN in the film?! In fact, the whole nightmare BEGAN with an unusual RAIN!). Kendall claimed he’d seen many, many more of them before the heavier rain, yet some of the blooms endured.



For me, the most fascinating aspect of these weedy little wildflowers were the buds – of which there seemed to be far more of than blooms. Now granted it’s been a few years since I saw the movie, but don’t these buds look a lot like those deadly little PODS from outer space in that movie?!







Unless I’d seen the buds and the blooms on the same plant myself, I’d have never imagined that the two came from the same plant. The buds are even an altogether different color than the delicate, papery thin little blooms (that looked as though if you blow on them too hard, they’d disintegrate). Do you see anything that looks like a sojourner growing inside this thing?!



OH GOD! Now NONE of us will be able to sleep again! There’ll be alien horses, alien goats, alien dogs and cats and birds, alien frogs and fish and bugs, alien chipmunks and rabbits…sweet JESUS…even alien NUTKINS!!!!

Is that a GARBAGE PICKUP I see driving slowly up the road, drivers glaring blankly at my house?! EEEEeeeeeekkkkkk!!!!
*runs screaming, in search of powerful amphetamines*
…must stay awake…must stay awake…