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May 11 2015

The Bishop

Posted by Mugs @ 10:02 pm in Family,Nature Print This Post Print This Post

The Bishop has started to bloom. It’s such a beautiful rose that I’ve spent the last two days smelling the blossoms, taking photos, gazing at it fondly, standing on chairs, crawling out onto the porch roof for a view from above. (The police chief drove by while I was inching down the roof and slowed for a moment. Then she remembered I was the crazy garden photo nut who could be found standing in the middle of the street or sitting on the roof or kneeling in her front yard wearing a bathrobe in the early morning light just to get the perfect shot. She drove on.)

The purple-pink Bishop has joined the purple-blue climatis in a show stopping display near the entrance to the porch. The photo of the two of them together is the view from our home office window. When Abby saw it she said, “Wow, Mom! It looks like you have a professional garden.

I purchased The Bishop a few years back from the “Save the Rose” lady who lives nearby. She had many different roses to purchase and I had limited funds. I was wandering her gardens trying to decide which rose to buy when I met a fellow wanderer named Robert. “Buy The Bishop. It’s a wonderful rose. You won’t regret it,” he said.

I believed him. I bought it and he was right, I’ve never regretted it. It is a “blooms once a year” old garden rose. Like my cherry tree, its beauty will only last for a little while, but what gorgeous days those are.

2 Responses to “The Bishop”

  1. Vanessa says:

    Gorgeous!
    (and I had to laugh at the mental picture of you up on the roof…because I could easily picture you doing it 😉 )

  2. Mugs says:

    I’m embarrassed to admit I was on the roof again to get a picture of the tulip poplar’s tulips. The tulip petals have been falling on my head for years, but the tree is so giant, I could never get a picture of the flowers before they fell. When the petals started falling this year, I looked up and thought, “If I climb out Gabe’s window…”

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