{"id":2803,"date":"2011-05-05T06:35:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T10:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2011-05-05T06:42:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T10:42:44","slug":"naked-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2803","title":{"rendered":"Naked Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"

I waxed eloquent recently<\/a> about how even when blossoms fall, the beauty of the plant is still there.\u00a0 True for cherry trees, but not for tulips.\u00a0 On the walk to work over the past few weeks, I enjoyed watching a couple of tulip plantings emerge and burst forth into colorful displays of joy.\u00a0 How sad to see the ravages of time as they passed their peak.\u00a0 Stripped of the flower, there’s nothing attractive about a nude tulip.\u00a0 You have the urge, when you see a shivering crowd of these poor souls, to put a blanket or maybe a little screen around them, preserving what dignity remains, saving them from prying, pitying eyes.<\/p>\n

These first tulips lived on the corner of Constitution and 14th.<\/p>\n

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The show begins<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gradually revealing their beauty<\/p><\/div>\n

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A practically perfect display of tulipocity<\/p><\/div>\n

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In their full, brilliant glory<\/p><\/div>\n

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It happened so fast<\/p><\/div>\n

The second tulip colony I visited each day is at the south end of The Ellipse.<\/p>\n

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Big ole pots o' pretty<\/p><\/div>\n

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The President's splendid neighbors<\/p><\/div>\n

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Avert your eyes! Have you no shame?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Put them out of their misery. Please<\/p><\/div>\n

Poor bare things, their former noble beauty, a memory.\u00a0 Nothing left for us but to move on, grateful the tulips visited our planet and enriched us, for a spell, with elegance, grace, style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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