Roses

Rainy days mean photography indoors and it has rained endlessly here, or so it seems. The full quote from Swinburne reads: "If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather." To my wife, who's been feeling down because her mother is ill.

Photographed in the Manito City Park rose garden, Spokane, Washington.

In Explore, October 30, 2009, #427. Dedicated to Brendamb, another wonderful Flickr friend. May your days always be as bright as this lovely rose. This rose was photographed in a neighbor's garden. I wonder sometime what our neighbors think of me, crawling around on the sidewalks in front of their houses. The picture was cropped, but is otherwise SOOC.

In Explore June 17, 2009, #236.

My youngest daughter's fiancee gave her these roses (her name is Rosanna, so the roses are now Rose's roses). I immediately confiscated them so that I could photograph them.