Dumbfounding Drops

Below we see a set of lovely flowers that one of my daughters recently bought. 

 When I came up to the kitchen area this morning to get tea, I noticed something strange. There was a fist-sized concentration of pink pedals at a spot roughly corresponding to the bottom left part of this photo. "How strange" I thought to myself, before cleaning up the pedal mess.

When I came back for lunch more than an hour later, I saw another fist-sized concentration of pink pedals, at the same spot that I had seen the pedals before. Again, I cleaned up the pedals. I prepared myself some lunch, which took only about ten minutes. I was alone in the kitchen. 

After sitting down for lunch, I noticed that once again there was another fist-sized concentration of pink pedals, at the same spot I had found the first two concentrations of pedals (roughly corresponding to the bottom left of the photo above). The third concentration of pedals had appeared within a time span that could not have been more than 15 minutes. 

Usually pedals falling can be naturally explained.  But in a case like this we have pedal-falling behavior that seems to defy anything that chance might produce. The pedals were only seen in the same fist-sized area of the counter, although randomly falling pedals from this flower arrangement would have fallen over an area maybe ten or twenty times bigger. And it seems that randomly falling pedals would not have fallen to make a concentration of pedals during a time span of only 15 minutes. There is no strong wind today where I live. 

Maybe there is some symbolic significance here. The spooky event involving pedal drops may portend  that something important is about to drop. Let us hope it is not the stock market. 

Postscript: After publishing this post at about 2:30, I went back up to the kitchen, and found the following (the previous pedals had all been cleaned up):

The pedals were in the same spot that the previous three pedal droppings had occurred. For the fourth time today I cleaned up all the pedals from the counter.  I then went out to buy something. Returning with some flowers for the front yard, I checked the kitchen counter again. Now there were no pedal droppings near the vase.  I planted the flowers I had bought, and went back to the kitchen to make some coffee. Now there was once again a big dropping of pedals or pedal fragments, only in the same spot where the previous four pedal droppings had occurred. Below is what I saw:

Someone who believes that plants are conscious might speculate that this is some flower trying to act in some attention-getting way, by dropping its pedals or pedal fragments in concentrated bursts rather than at random intervals. 

Post-postscript: The next day I found the rather heart-shaped pedal below, on the floor, about 18 or 20 inches away from the flower vase. I can't explain how it got to that position. The windows were closed at the time. 

When I saw this, I also saw some pedal or pedal fragments near the vase, which I cleaned up, leaving the area around the vase clean. When I came back 90 minutes later, there was the big concentration of pedals and pedal fragments shown below. I can't understand how so much material could have naturally fallen in so short a time. I was the only person in the house, and the windows were still closed.

Again, I cleaned up all these pedals and pedal fragments, leaving the area near the vase clean. Coming back about 90 minutes later, for lunch, I saw what we see below.

Once again I cleaned up all the pedals and pedal fragments, and decided I would carefully observe whether any pedals or pedal fragments fell during the 30 minutes I would be in the kitchen for lunch. Not a single pedal or pedal fragment fell.