A friend brought me some tulips this weekend which I am now enjoying.
Observing the tulips got me thinking about humankind’s fickleness and need for status symbols!
Today the tulip is simply a tulip…..a lovely flower usually originating from Holland and one that we enjoy during spring time.
However, during the Dutch Golden Age, roughly spanning the 17th century, Tulip Mania, broke out with some single tulip bulbs selling for more than ten times the annual income of a skilled craftsman.
The tulip with its saturated intense petal colour became a status symbol.
The magical hummingbird flies free of such constraints, drinking from the sweet nectar of life.
A Bientôt
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