I didn’t get out of the car to take this picture; I had mowed and was tired and only driving out did I remember I wanted a photo. So I hit the automatic window button and picked up the pretty much automatic camera and grabbed a couple of shots. The light was from the west and my driver’s seat was on the east side of the car, so this is what I got.

These roses came from New York State over a hundred years ago – 120 t0 150 years ago – and they bloom at first a deep rose which fades to pink and then to white. Unlike newer, designer roses, they are very fragrant.

You can see the taller grass beneath them because I was on a rider mower; some 50 years ago, I used a walk behind mower and got everything neatly trimmed. Maybe, just maybe, if I did that again, I would be trimmer also.