Flower for the Day Oriental Lily 7-22-21

Just when I had given up on the oriental lilies this beauty showed up with multiple blooms.

They were in a difficult to access part of the gnome garden so I wonder if the deer have been munching the others.

Haiku of an Oriental Master

Petals I amass
with such tenderness
prick me to the quick.

―Kobayashi Issa, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch