On the whole, you may be pretty sure, if you go into your garden, and find many flowers — as tulips, marigolds and morning glories — shut, it will be a stormy day, unfit for picnics or long walks.

They are morning glories. They are cute, aren't they?

This morning I gave class on a verse from the Third Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam about the glories of the brahminical, or priestly, order.