The Flower of Happiness
The flower of happiness, the marvel of a tale told at Sunnymount Crest: a flower whose possession, or whose bloom, was said to bring happiness to whoever found it. In the tale the search for the flower tests the seeker, and the happiness it brings is measured in the finding rather than in any magic of the blossom itself. The tale belongs to the great European family of quests for a thing of pure good fortune, from the golden apple to the singing tree, where the journey works the change in the hero. At Sunnymount Crest the flower is tied to a real place, and the story shapes how the landscape i