Have You Hugged Your Rhody Today?

I read something today that I found very interesting. Great article. According to a study at Rutgers University, we humans have an emotional attachment to flowers. "Our hypothesis is that flowers are exploiting an emotional niche. They make us happy," McGuire says. "Because they are a source of pleasure, a positive emotion inducer, we take care of them. In that sense they're like dogs. They are the pets of the plant world."

I really like that analogy - pets of the plant world. I get it. Tending to the garden is like taking care of pets - we feed them, water them, protect them, and give them lots of love and TLC, and they reward us by looking adorable.

And then eventually, of course, they up and die on us.