51�Թ�

Lucy: Just from the minute it started, you knew it wasn’t children-appropriate, lots of naked ladies.

The luminous goblet-shaped blossoms of Colchicum autumnale are a fresh, almost-bawdy pink — the blooms are sometimes called “naked ladies” because they show up abruptly, sans foliage, just as most plants are fading.

I didn’t worry about anyone else appreciating my body — from the naked ladies cheering from their trailer’s outdoor bar to the gentleman doing naked squats on his deck.

Her little house was surrounded by pink surprise lilies — what my cousins called “naked ladies.”

Her son and a friend, she said, had taken screen shots and saved images of the “naked ladies that they liked” to their devices.