"Saffron" Portraits All life started in the

All life started in the sea

(Information taken from New York Times and Wikipedia)

those threads of connections persist

or perhaps before reaching their final destination in the Otherworld

"Saffron" Portraits All life started in theThe love story of Crocus and Smilax. The God Crocus was unhappy with his love affair with the nymph Smilax, and he was turned by the gods into a plant bearing his name, the crocus (saffron). Smilax is believed to have been given a similar fate and transformed into bindweed. Crocus and Smilax may be turned to flowers, And the Curetes spring from bounteous showers I pass a hundred legends stale, as these, And with sweet novelty your taste to please