Rosa 'A Shropshire Lad' 30 November 2025

 

Today is what I would call a travel limbo.  I am leaving at 7 in the morning tomorrow for Mexico City (CDMX). This means that I will not get a good night’s sleep. Without my Rosemary to help me pack and organize the trip I lie in bed trying to think what I may have forgotten to put in my suitcase.

My two daughters are going to come for late lunch as well as my nephew Tom Tom (not a mistake as he is known for that double name) Wolf who is coming from San francisco to be one of the speakers for The Prosper Symposium on Drug Prevention tomorrow. Tom Tom travels all over the world, including Washington DC, to give advice that he learned when he was a terrible alchoholic and drug addict. He does point out to me (and he should know) that Vancouver has the worst fentanyl problem in North America.

At around 4 I will have the sad duty of taking Niño and Niña to the Feline Hilton on West Boulevard in Kerrisdale. Because I will be returning on a Saturday late that will mean that I will spend tonight and my coming back Saturday without their cuddly company.

I do not have an Uber application so I will call my usual Black Top cabs to pick me up to take me to the airport.

I have been emptying all my garbage. Tomorrow will be the pick up. The house is clean. What have I possibly missed?

Not missed was looking for some sort of open rose bud with my best rose at this late time in fall called Rosa ‘Shropshire Lad’.  I wa rewarded and as usual this rose has lovely new red leaves.

 I will bid my two cats goodbye but somehow this rose has done the same and perhaps has even wished me a safe journey and a good time.