Sunday, July 26, 2009

Naked Pink Ladies

Georgie calls these lilies "The Naked Pink Ladies of Sewanee."Imagine each grande dame just bathed, her thin skin glowing pink veined with blue and purple, dainty and one-stemmed (my grandmother always said, "A lady has only one stem"), before her mirror, powdery and pearlescent.Marvel at their shameless elegance.

(After posting this, I learned from a friend that a more proper name for these is "surprise.")

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