Geranium 'Rozanne' 27 October 2021

Today October 27, 2021 I am now not much better in dealing with my grief over the loss of my Rosemary on December 9, 2020.

But there are some things that have kept me able to cope from day to day.

I believe that all humans, even those that live alone, need affection. I do get affection, lots of it, from my sticky orange and white cats, Niño and Niña. They are constantly at my side and fight at night as to which one will sleep closest to me when I turn off the lights.

Geranium 'Rozanne' 25 October 2010

Of course love’s other side is always guilt and I feel terrible when I must leave them alone to go shopping. My grief has been so bad of late that without having the cats I would point my Chevrolet Cruze in any direction out of Vancouver. I cannot do that. My planned trip to Buenos Aires either in December or January, my drive alone in March to Rosemary’s New Dublin and my presentation (the beauty of hosta flowers) in June at the American Hosta Society National Convention in Minneapolis will force me to check the cats into the West Boulevard Feline Hilton.

As important is my being able to go to my garage oficina and sit down in front of my computer to either write a blog or scan plants from the garden. Writing every day is sanity for my soul.

For quite a few days I have not had a computer. This computer’s contents were being migrated (the word in fashion now) into a brand new one that I am having Bensen at Powersonic Computers put together for me. I was able to retrieve yesterday that Windows 7 computer that Bensen says will serve me as a backup. And today I picked up my scanner that had the glass bed changed. It had scratches and deposits on the inside from evaporating solvents from the scanner’s plastic innards.

So here I am writing this, feeling the relief that I was able to scan a few last roses of the season.

But a few days ago I placed in social media (Twitter and Facebook) a scan of Rosemary’s Geranium ‘Rozanne’ which I did on October 25 2010 in the old house in Kerrisdale. I wondered?

Geranium 'Rozanne' 27 October 2021

And yes under a hosta I found today one bloom (the others must be long gone because of the rain and the heat of the summer). It is not perfect. But it made me smile. It was the presence of my Rosemary and her fondness for the colour blue that will mean that tonight I just might get a good night’s sleep.

And I must finish this by pointing out a happy event from yesterday. I received an email from Indigo telling me that a book I had ordered back in May was now available.