Flower for the Day Has your World Turned Upside Down? 3-23-2020

Ours has. I'm not even supposed to use the public toilet at the park as I walk alone.

But mine is not the only life turned upside down by nature. Check out these two tulip bulbs that have been 

delivered by our deer. 

Their green leaves have been crunched as you can see. I will put them back into the earth but I have my

doubts that beautiful tulips will result. So it goes in gardening.

Can death be far beyond?

Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)

John Donne - 1571-1631

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy'or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.