Opening Softly Note Cards

Also available as museum-quality posters. What am I looking for in a rose, when I have hundreds, sometimes thousands of blooms to pick from? I am attracted to color and blending colors. I am love symmetry and form. Well, this wonderful bud has everything, in spades. And it had survived the unusual heat of Spring 2020. Many of the spring buds were burned or dried in the heat, before they could even open. There was a pall over the garden. All the effects of 2020 seemed to be seeping away the life and colors, before the buds even had a chance. But, if you look hard enough, there is always grace, sometimes hiding in the shadows. Walking the rows of the garden, I noticed, hiding back, deep in the center of a row, in the shade, this beauty. It has everything and it was able to unfurl to this glorious form on one of the hotter days of this Spring. Spring in the Pacific Northwest is usually not a time for sunhats, but for raincoats. Oddly though, Portland has one of the highest skin cancer rat