hello there
a post dedicated to, once more, unravelling and revelling the mysteries and myths of nature, look you see. well, maybe a mystery and possibly a myth. maybe, but certainly in the singular.
something highly sought after (and the existence of which has often been contentious) in the wilds of nature is, or has been, the four leaf clover. this, for the sake of clarity, would be a clover growing that has four leafs (leaves?) on it, rather than the conventional three. at least i think it is so that they traditionally just have the three. i am not horticulturalist or marine biologist, no matter how tempting it is to pursue the lifestyle of the latter.
quite by chance it was so that, one afternoon, as i sat outside smoking (sorry), i spotted one of these presumed to be mythical four leaf clover things. well, at the very least, i think i did. no, as shall be explored later (if your read on) i did not "pick" it as such, but yes of course i did take a picture or two.
it seemed quite (and most) appropriate to take a picture of what i suspected to be a four leaf clover in the greater glory of Commodore 64 mode. this, i can appreciate, might not be what some of you would consider as appropriate, so yes, down below, is a clearer "regular" sort of image. but open yourself up to the wonders of seeing things in Commodore 64 mode, it is better.
why, exactly, is it that many would consider the (ostensibly) rare four leaf clover (if it is even a real thing) to be lucky? i am unsure, and i have little interest to do one of them google things to explore the concept further. for some reason i suspect it (the idea that such would bring luck or good fortune) is all of some irish provenance, or it may well be romany, or indeed gypsy should one still be allowed to use that word free from fear of arrest.
does the luck thing work? i am not sure. first, it is not confirmed that i actually did find one. should it be so that i did, then it was that i was rather flustered, and had no idea of what ceremonial activities needed to be done to extract the luck and good fortune from the find. instinct told me to pluck it from the ground would be to defy the nature of things, so i did not. all i can confirm is that this approach brought no immediate luck in respect of any lottery jackpots.
purely for your consideration it is so that the above picture exists. that is indeed a batch, or if you will crop, of regular (conventional, maybe) clover, in something of their natural habitat. note the shape, position, size and what have you of each leaf. and, indeed, how many leafs (leaves?) there are. if. you know, you wish to.
there was the one afternoon of the one day of one summer in my youth (rather than, say, at some stage in my future) where i, and i believe my brother and sister too, scoured a field for a four leaf clover. we searched in vain; we searched in awe. sadly, no, we did not find what we were looking for. i can recall, to my shame, doing what no doubt others did and have done, which was to try and "split" one singular leaf, or petal, off of a clover so as to craft an unconvincing illusion of a four leaf being found.
so, anyway, a look at what i think (or thought) or suspect (or suspected) was a four leaf clover is in order. and, at that, a look in non-Commodore 64 mode.
now that i look at it here, closer (so to speak) in this picture, i am not convinced or otherwise "sold" on it being so that this was (or is) a four leaf clover. the top part was what had my suspect it was so, but perhaps this is just a distorted, or if you will elongated third leaf, rather than leaf three and four trying to by symmetrical with leaf one and two.
but that said, who are we to stand judgemental in the face of the dreams and aspirations of plant life? should this clover wish to be a four leaf one, then it is so, for it (they) have achieved such as convincingly and realistically as possible.
yes, indeed, more of this sort of thing to follow, should i see similar, and of course be fortunate enough to make it that far.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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