Stand Tall

Photo by The Curated Feast

Stand tall, all you beautiful flowers.

Did you know that these eye-catching flowers come from the high plains of Mexico? The name dahlia, however, comes from Andreas Dahl, a student of Carl Linnaeus.

And Anders Tidström, a disciple of pioneering botanist and taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus, met the then nine-year-old Dahl during a 1760 voyage, and mentions in his travel diary both young Anders' interest in botany, and his impressive collection of plants.

So when you look at a dahlia, don’t forget to think of your younger self’s curiosity and don’t forget to follow that thread.

And what about you!? What were you most curious about as a kid?! How do you connect to that today?