The Earthquake and the Lilies

 “The Earthquake rumbled
And mumbled
And grumbled;
And then he bumped,
And everything tumbled--
Bumpyty-thump!
Thumpyty-bump!”
 
#Earthquake in #Boorowa last night, woke up the henhouse and made the dogs bark like mad. Only the magic lilies looked on coolly and just shook off their water droplets. Just another day of farm life.
 
(magic lilies, or ‘naked ladies’ or ‘Belladonna lilies’, beautifully surprising us at the farm right now, right next to the packing shed)
--from the poem “The Bashful Earthquake” by Oliver Herford
 
#lilies #pasture #eggs
 
Photography by Haydn