New Flag, New Flower

Inauguration

The Sewer Raccoon News started this day of a new administration by going down to the hardware store and buying a fresh new flag to spring forth from our parapet just as soon as Barack Obama was sworn in.

Before we took the unsullied flag up to the snowy deck we took it out of its box and photographed it with a fresh amaryllis resting on top of it. The new flower, brought from its darkened and unopened carton, was already sprouted and set to shoot upward, with the greening stalk beginning to rise from the darkness.