Today, when going home after a hard day's work, I saw a roadside flower blooming under the grey sky.
Honestly, it wasn't a particulary beautiful one at all.
Nor was it rare, or even under conservation laws.
Nor special in any other way one could think of.
But I did pick it for you which is what makes it a very special flower indeed. To make the grey sky look a little bit brighter.
(Well yes, probably in your part of this world the sky was a shiny blue today. But then I never said I only picked it for you, right? I did so for all readers of my blog - the seventy-two of you.)
(Well yes, if you insist ... I did pick it for me too, partly. So really I picked it for seventy-two people plus one, satisfied?)
(Finally, to also satisfy your botanical curiosity if you have any at all, and to give some hard facts: this most likely is an autumn aster - Lanzett-Herbstaster, Symphyotrichum lanceolatum, but the taxonomy of this species is still disputed. It is in fact true that it is not a rare one, it isn't even indigenuous to Europe but an American immigrant. And you really most likely wouldn't notice it if you ever came across one, on the roadside, after a hard day's work ... it's like with a wallflower on a party, she's there but you don't notice her.)
