Will words do for today?

It is a moment when I do not have the familiar material to work with. I am without anything that make this blog what it is. I need photos, images, whatever it takes to make this blog what it is. So how am I going to do today's post with no photos at all? Okay, I will do it through another medium and pose a riddle instead.

Think of this flower that is yellow

and it is shaped like a star

It shines from the ground, a creeper

and it becomes a vegetable

that can be eaten cooked or raw

What am I?

Yes you are right Alice my friend
A Zucchini flower bright and yellow
and I read that they can be cooked and eaten
I don't know how one can eat a flower
It would be like eating a pet chicken
I would probably cry a river
before I have the courage to devour
a flower

Zucchini Flowers

This vine crept into my view out of the blue from a neighbour's garden and presented a flower that was closed with promises of many more. I did not know what vine this possibly could be but now I do.

A few days later I saw what looked like the development of a fruit at the base of the flower with petals tightly closed like a clenched fist. The fruit looked to me like a small water melon. I lost track of the development of this particular vine. Then a few days ago, I caught sight of this particular flower. Needless to say, I wasted no time in taking pictures of it but I had to struggle to position the camera by sticking my hand out of the fence and operating it with only my right hand.


Later that morning, I noticed that the flower has closed as if it was time for its siesta.
There will be no more photos of this vine because it died. Life is unpredictable even for a plant that apparently was enjoying life in a garden.