The tulip is a beautiful flower part of the family of the Liliaceous plants. Its name means turban and it has its origins in Turkey, where turbans are plentiful. My fascination with Tulips began last summer when I visited Holland. I never before had seen so many bulbous-rooted rainbow colored flowers painting the landscape in magnificent formations and artful shapes. Tulips go through similar life stages just like humans do. Tulips show a remarkable similarity with the human life cycle at every stage of their development.
             My observations of these wonderful plats had leaded me to analogize them with the human life span. Tulips like any other living organism have infancy, adolescence, adulthood, and senile stage in their life cycle that lasts approximately thee months. This reminds me of Alan's Lightman's book Einstein's Dreams, where he describes the chapters: "Imagine a world where one lives one day" and also " Time is a circle", because for this rainbow colored plants life is ephemeral and precisely repetitive.
             During their seed stage they actually are embryos that resembles fetuses, which develops in a couple of weeks, let's say that is the pregnancy period. Just like a human life, tulips needs nurturing from mother earth. Literally they depend on the soil for its development and feeding from the minerals and oxygen deposited in the fertile mud. The seed develops and grows properly into the next life cycle stage. The moment of birth for the new tulip is the time when the new baby starts inhaling fresh oxygen from the environment and drinking fresh water from the muddy soil. An erect little leafy cocoon can be seen emerging from the pot towards the sun, I believe the plant may think that the sun must be his father and exasperatedly the infant urges toward his warm and luminous hug. This is indeed a magic moment for the baby and for the observer.
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