Just Yellow

Just Yellow, originally uploaded by ~g~.

During my recent 'flower photography frenzy' [well, I have been taking lots of photographs of flowers recently], I do a lot of close-up shots of the core of the flowers. I do this mainly for 2 reasons, often we never notice what's inside the flower and just admire the colourful outer petals. The other reason being getting close-up often gives a 'wow' factor to the pictures. Looking at these flowers close-up got me thinking ... [beware ... my thoughts border and sometime teeter over to the insane department]

I started thinking of the purpose of flowers. No! no! ... I wasn't thinking of a romantic date of anything [what! are you nuts!?!?!?] but rather the biological purposes of a flower and my thoughts went back to the days of biology in primary school. The teachers [who often played God] would teach us about the stamen [a filament which holds the pollen] and the stigma [the part which receives the pollen]. Biology for dummies: Basically to sum things up, bees or various other birds / insects would be attracted by the flowers and go from flower to flower harvesting the nectar etc. As they do this, they would transfer the pollen from one flower to another thereby causing fertilisation. For more details ask your parents or just click here.

What's my point? Ok here goes. Ladies, you know how you feel loved then your significant other brings you flowers? Just realise he gave you a bunch of reproductive organs. So warn your man that you don't want flowers for the upcoming ball ok? [might be too late for that]. Now let me speak to the men here, if you find my post to be logical and liberating [yeah ... I know you've been thinking the same things all this time], tell your girl about this. Might save you some money in the process. Now I'm not against giving your girl gifts. Just make sure it's something that will last. Like say ... a hammer ... no, ignore that. A hammer hurts when she throws it at you. Ok ... how about a car wash sponge? That won't hurt.

If in the event that this does save you some dough and bring your relationship to another level, give me a pat on the back next time you see me. If the response is positive, I'll share other interesting thoughts like ... how to avoid: washing the dishes; doing the laundy; showering etc ... just consider this my service to the community at large.

[Oh ... by the way ... a fellow blogger said that my recent posts weren't controversial enough. Does this one quality?]