Before lovers co-opted the custom, mortal enemies would exchange bouquets of roses and lilies before duels to symbolize the blood and lilies that were about to be spilt. Find a flower that enflames your own passions with today's Groupon: for $8, you get two admission tickets to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (up to a $16 value).
Cofounded by the former first lady in 1982, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center strives to increase sustainable use and conservation of native wildflowers, plants, and landscapes through education and preservation. Because plants are too proud to ask for help from lawyers, doctors, and talent agents, the Wildflower Center takes it upon itself to protect and propagate the native plants and flowers of Hill Country and the greater south and west in Texas. Stroll one of the wildflower center's four trails among summer blooms such as the indian mallow, the demure coastal sand verbena, and the ornery-yet-soft prickly prairie acacia. Visit one of the center's nature-art exhibits, including Vibrant Blooms and Aqueous Matter, or stroll over to the café, gift shop, or castle-like observation tower. With new knowledge and appreciation of each blossom's aesthetic and ecological role, visitors might even be inspired to return their own gardens to their native splendor and finally evict all those invasive piranha plants blocking their warp pipes.
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The Groupon Guide to: Essential Organs
Although doctors describe the human body as a fleshy steamer trunk overstuffed with superfluous vestigialities (the appendix, lung freckles, etc.), some body parts may actually be necessary. Here's a look at your most important organs:
The Heart: This simple pumping muscle is also your body's emotional processing core, handling every single one of the three possible emotions: love, disappointment, and love-disappointment.
The Spleen: Scientists don't know what this endlessly pulsating organ does, nor do they want to know. All they know for sure is that any time a person's spleen is removed, 100 pelicans fall from the sky.
Fingers: Thanks to Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould's groundbreaking 1993 study, which proved that fingers don't grow back when chopped off, we are no longer expected to tithe our digits to the federal government. As a result, however, our nation's strategic reserve of prehensile digits has precipitously dropped.
Bones: They're like tent poles for your skin.
Eyes: Sure, they make everyday experiences appear in that newfangled 3-D that Hollywood movies won't shut up about, but they won't help you see what's really important: the back of your haircut.
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