Dried Roses.........

As the bouquet of red, white and pink roses faded these two seemed to keep their shape.  It may be because they actually never bloomed.  I  tried the three different colors on the bouquet instead of all red, which does mean true love, and my wife really did  like the three different colors in one vase. We have been married long enough that I thought I could pull off the change as she is just as zany creative as I am so the change seemed to be good to do.

When I asked for the red, white and pink the florist lady had this look about her.  I said do you carry those white and pink roses.  If not I would have gone all red.  She was ok with it and put a lot of white filler with it to tie it together.

Red Rose Glow........

The unfolding of a rose is so wonderful as it changes it's appearance throughout it's days. I asked and received a dozen roses for my wife with the scheme of red, pink and white. It really was a great, different bouquet.  Because they didn't get it delivered by 4:00 and I had to go pick it up, they gave me one more free red rose for the arrangement. So it was a baker's dozen of roses this year.

Red Blaze

I need to move this rose as it isn't getting much sunshine and hasn't bloomed very many blooms. It is a climber and it should be putting out an abundance of blooms.

A Labor Day Blossom.......

Old and new........

I find it interesting to see how the rose changes as it ages.  It fades to a white bloom before it drops it's petals.