Senecio Brachyglottis greyii

When one lives alone in a house that was occupied also by someone else, and in this case my Rosemary, I find things every day that remind me of her.

I have had this Polaroid on my desk for some months. It is dark and embedded with dust. Today I decided to scan it and to painfully remove all that dust. The colours are a purplish blue. The Senecio Brachyglottis greyii (the grey plant) was one of her favourite grey plants. She had a fondness for all grey plants. The rose is one of my favourite David Austen English Roses called Rosa ‘Fair Bianca’. It has a unique myrrh scent that only snobbish rosarians like. Both Rosemary and I were rose snobs!

To me there is a lovely sadness in this Polaroid that is almost like looking at Rosemary, who often, on her own, would reflect and show a sadness in her face. Our eldest daughter Alexandra inherited that melancholic face.