Some roses I remember

And one I'd forgotten

Recently, when I was looking through pictures from my 2019 trip to Normandy, I came across a photo of a rose I’d forgotten about:

The chain in this picture reminded me of another picture I’d taken of a rose at a garden in Cincinnati last summer.

This is turn reminded me of my visit to the Rose Garden in Berkeley last spring:

And the great photo of a ladybug on a rose I captured at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden:

Roses are in bloom now on Amherst’s campus, and I recently spotted a lovely cluster of roses that were a mix of red and purple blooms. They struck me as the rose embodiment of the opening lines of the poem “Warning” by Jenny Joseph:

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.

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