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.
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.
ReplyDeleteI just laughed at your title and remember Mom using that expression. Where did that come from? :-)
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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
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your comments! And thanks Betsey for taking the time to look that phase up! Wow, Shakespeare!
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