2076-03-07 Not What They Seem

We are no longer limited to what occurs naturally.

If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you.—George Carlin

I love the weird bits of life today. Everything from eating utensils to landscapes can, and often does, have elements of fantasy. That keeps things interesting, when a life that is too easy or predictable might lead to boredom.

The flowers, for one thing. Any color or pattern you can imagine, and some botanical artist has bred or genetically engineered it. Flowerbeds and window boxes are a riot of shapes and colors, and in all seasons. It's just as easy to gengineer cold-hardiness, salt tolerance, or wind-resistant stalks as it is to tweak a petal's color scheme. The tools we developed for food plants, out of necessity, have been applied to flowers for aesthetics. Not that everyone has refined good taste.