Fiery Orange Tips
An abundance of green and red is all you would see at first
glance.
But when you get closer, you notice the little details that truly make
the TCU campus beautiful. The physical plant team at TCU makes our first
glances memorable without even trying. Sometimes, we don’t take the time to
appreciate how beautiful the trees, plants, grass, and flowers really are. I
noticed a sea of green and red when walking to class one day, but this time, it
was different. I took the time to stop and look at the flowers.
I caught a glimpse of fiery orange at the tips of each flower. Something I would have never noticed if I kept walking with my phone in my hand. Each flower was unique, yet all part of the same family. Some of them had long green stems that lifted up higher off the ground, and others were shorter with bigger leafs on the sides. It was a clear reminder to me that we can all be part of a larger community, but our individual selves make the community unique and special and worth taking a closer look at. In between the fiery orange and red tulips, I noticed smaller flowers that hung closer to the ground. Most of them had white petals with yellow centers that drooped a little bit, and few of them were a deep pinkish/purple color that had a dark rim of blue near the center. They also had a long yellow stem in the center that made them feel as if they were part of the same family flower as the white ones. All the flowers lived within the same soil and dirt beds and were all continuously able to grow with help from rain storms and water buckets.
You don’t realize how special flowers are until you look at one; but you must take the time to actually take a look, not just pass them by and simply see. Their colors are striking and bold with a hint of vulnerability to them. Flowers make our world brighter and more vibrant. TCU especially makes blooming season after winter one to look forward to.
I caught a glimpse of fiery orange at the tips of each flower. Something I would have never noticed if I kept walking with my phone in my hand. Each flower was unique, yet all part of the same family. Some of them had long green stems that lifted up higher off the ground, and others were shorter with bigger leafs on the sides. It was a clear reminder to me that we can all be part of a larger community, but our individual selves make the community unique and special and worth taking a closer look at. In between the fiery orange and red tulips, I noticed smaller flowers that hung closer to the ground. Most of them had white petals with yellow centers that drooped a little bit, and few of them were a deep pinkish/purple color that had a dark rim of blue near the center. They also had a long yellow stem in the center that made them feel as if they were part of the same family flower as the white ones. All the flowers lived within the same soil and dirt beds and were all continuously able to grow with help from rain storms and water buckets.
You don’t realize how special flowers are until you look at one; but you must take the time to actually take a look, not just pass them by and simply see. Their colors are striking and bold with a hint of vulnerability to them. Flowers make our world brighter and more vibrant. TCU especially makes blooming season after winter one to look forward to.
But, I think if we just
took five minutes out of our busy days to stop and appreciate these flowers, we
could make every day a day to look forward to.
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