Saturday Photo: Peonies Awaiting Ravishment by Rain

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Along with inundated streets and flooded tunnels this week, heavy intense rain had its way with peonies which are just now coming into bloom. Their top-heavy flowers can't stand up to a torrent, and many a lucious flower now lies ravished on the grass, beaten down by the violence of a storm.

 These peonies so far have held up well, perhaps because they've got a little wire fence around them for support. Makes me think of the stays that women wore a century or more ago in part to keep them upright when faced by paassionate emotion.