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| Rosa 'Sweet Juliet' - 15 June 2023 |
O sweet Juliet,/Thy beauty hath made me effeminate /And in my temper soften'd valour's steel! Act Three: Benvolio and Mercutio are walking through the streets when they are approached by an angry Tybalt, who is looking to challenge Romeo.
Rosemary and I had Rosa ‘Sweet Juliet’ perhaps beginning in 1990. I can remember exactly where it was placed. It was by the fence on 43 Avenue in what was really a quite shaded area of our Kerrisdale garden. I bloomed well in spite of it. Now Sweet Juliet is in Kitsilano and I am sure that Rosemary would have smiled if I had shown her this scan or given the rose for her to smell. This English Rose has good scent.
I may have scanned this rose at least 15 times through the years since I began scanning roses in 2001.
For me roses are really no different from people. One of my maximum pleasures is to photograph members of my family or friends, multiple times through the years. This action cements the fact that my family, friends and roses accompany me as I traverse to my eventual oblivion. They are a comfort that stands out as it did when I carefully arranged the rose leaves around the rose before the scanning.
While I scanned R. 'Sweet Juliet'today 15 June 2023 I am placing this blog back in time to fill some of the holes as I have experienced turmoil in my flooded house (about a month ago) and I am living with my cats days of ceilings being cut and walls removed as well as most of the floors.
