It looks like it’s struggling, perhaps for water, but not giving up. It has found an entrance to the earth and that’s all, or almost all, it takes. Across the sidewalk is a larger, healthier bunch of white, lavender and purple flowers of exactly this type. My guess, and it seems obvious, is that last year’s seed found it’s way across the sidewalk and into a crack. Another guess, and it's just as obvious, is that this is a one in a thousand shot, but that’s how plants work. If they grow fast enough and long enough they can tear holes in the concrete, split the seams of old and new and go right on surviving. No excuse me, no pardon me, just a little here, a little there, and a seemingly impossible journey back to the world completely covered in greenery, when all this paving for cars and trucks and pedestrians is no longer done because… Well, plants don’t really care why. They care to survive, to return next season and evermore. We should be so patient.