The First Flowers

Back in the day when the world was just starting to come alive, Mother Nature was quite busy. She made the sky, often decorated with clouds during the day and dotted with stars during the night. She made grass for animals to feed on and humans to walk on, as well as trees much taller than her small stature. She created the occasional storms and very recently she made a rainbow to spread light and joy to the earth after the rain.

One day, she had an idea to make something that can be both beautiful and useful to animals and humans. So she went to the nearest patch of grass and waved her hand.

Instantly, her newest creation popped up between the blades of grass. It had a little green stem with small leaves attached and at the top of it, were a bunch of white petals overlapping each other.

"A flower," Mother Nature whispered proudly. "That is what I shall call you. Flower."

She then created more of them. Some were taller than the first, some smaller, some with fewer petals, and some had even more petals. Mother Nature spread them all across the globe, in every place where the soil would nourish the flowers sufficiently.

However, right after she was done, in a part of the globe that happened to be raining, Mother Nature realized that she had a problem.

She wasn't satisfied with the color white for her newest creation.

Sure, the very first flower was beautiful, and she did like the color white, but after seeing the rest of them in the same color...they were unfortunately boring.

But what color could make the flowers not boring?

Then, the rain stopped and soon after, a rainbow appeared. Mother Nature was gazing at the beauty of the color combination when she found the answer to her problem.

The rainbow lighted the sky with a multitude of colors. Why can't the flowers do the same for the earth?

Smiling, Mother Nature waved her hand, and instantly, one batch of white flowers turned into a dark blue. Mother Nature's smile grew wider as the dark blue petals contrasted beautifully with the white ones. She quickly went back to work to make sure to do the same throughout the world, though Mother Nature used more colors like pink, yellow, red, orange, and even brown. She did leave some flowers white of course.

When she was finally done, Mother Nature nodded in satisfaction before deciding that she was going to take a rest.

Taking care of flowers can be tough work after all.