The plant itself isn't very pretty, however, when it blooms, it makes up for all of that -- sort of like the ugly duckling.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
