So this is the last photograph that I will post of the life and death of our Sunflowers. I promise. I have left them on the back steps to watch them as they fade. Well, they are no longer fading - they are "deader than a doornail." I think my mom used to say that. Or someone said it when I was a kid, and I have always loved that expression. But I do think that there is beauty in their form and in their colors as they deteriorate.
4 comments:
Ken, I agree that there is beauty in their demise. I enjoy looking at them all winter long as they stand, majestically, in my snow filled garden. Thanks for the photos.
I just laughed at your title and remember Mom using that expression. Where did that come from? :-)
Joan
I laughed, too. So I decided to look up the phrase. Dead as a doornail means not alive, unequivocally deceased. the term was used in the 1500s by William Shakespeare and in 1843 by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol. Those sunflowers are DONE!! betsey
Thank you all for your comments! And thanks Betsey for taking the time to look that phase up! Wow, Shakespeare!
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