Roses

Taken on Rose Hill in Manito City Park. These two photos will be the last from Manito. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/10/autumn-at-m...

While we taking photos of the last of the roses at Manito, the gardeners were pruning them back for the winter and by the time we left there were very few flowers to be seen. They did give my wife a nice bouquet of them, however. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/10/autumn-at-m...

Photographed on Rose Hill at Manito City Park. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/10/autumn-at-m...

The photo was taken on Rose Hill in Manito City Park in Spokane when we were there a few weeks ago. It truly was the last rose as the roses were being pruned for the winter as we took pictures of them. This one, obviously, had already been touched by frost. Many more autumn pictures from the gardens here: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/10/autumn-at-m...

Taken in Manito City Park, Spokane.

Music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, But you are the music While the music lasts. -T.S. Eliot Dedicated to my Valentine of thirty-five years.

In Explore November 22, 2009, #175. Another photograph from a neighbor's garden. I wonder sometimes what our neighbor's think when they see us wandering around the edges of their yards with cameras, but we enjoy our excursions nevertheless.

In Explore November 17, 2009, #303. Photographed in a neighbor's garden. The quote is from Richard le Gallienne.

Photographed in Manito City Park, Spokane.