Disa clavicornis looking down

Has a mouse just run past in the grass below? These Disa clavicornis flowers look down as if something of interest to their inquisitive eyes is there to receive attention.

Personifying plants and their behaviour is light-hearted stuff, indulgences of poets, children and those who try to amuse them.

There is no end to the range of meanings people can elicit from the things and events around them in daily life. If those things happen to be alive and capable of observable change, this range increases.

The opposite is also true: The certainty derived from existing knowledge, the rut suggesting that nothing more will be learnt however one looks at something, limits the range and probability of discovery or new insight.

For the pioneer there is always merit in crossing yet another border. All living holds this exciting germ. Much of life passes with no rain to bring germination, even upon the seeds noticed.

Whether physically hazarding unknown terrors or only risking making a fool of oneself in the land of ideas, entertaining the miraculous, the new, brings exhilaration. Breaking new ground or building a new theory when inspired by vibrant life and beauty, such as these grassland flowers, is an open gate holding particular promise.