Oh, Those Naked Ladies!

You can always tell when it's August here on the Central Coast - the naked ladies arrive. Along the roadside, in the garden, on the bluffs overlooking the sea. Those lovely Amaryllis, that send up their leaves in late fall and winter and then die down until the stalks appear, in late summer, with glorious flowers ranging from pale pink to a deep fuchsia. How much fun was had by my younger self and my siblings as we'd run through the neighbourhood every August yelling "The naked ladies are here!