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| Rosa 'Emily Carr' 30 July 2026 |
Bruscamente la tarde se ha aclarado Porque ya cae la
lluvia minuciosa. Cae o cayó. La lluvia es una cosa Que sin duda sucede en el
pasado. Quien la oye caer ha r ecobrado El tiempo en que la suerte venturosa Le
reveló una flor llamada rosaY el curioso color del colorado. Esta lluvia que
ciega los cristales Alegrará en perdidos arrabales Las negras uvas de una parra
en ciertoPatio que ya no existe. La mojadaTarde me trae la voz, la voz deseada,
De mi padre que vuelve y que no ha muerto. La lluvia – Jorge Luís Borges
Above is one
of my favourite Borges poem called La Lluvia (The Rain). My friend George
McWhirter the Belfast- born novelist and poet (the first Vancouver Poet
Laureate) translates into English the poetry of Mexican poet Homero Aridjis. He
smiled when I showed him this poem. He told me that the line:
Crocosmia 'Lucifer' 30 July 2026
Un flor llamada rosa y el curioso color del colorado. Borges has here an almost
alliteration with curioso, color, colorado cannot be translated..
In Spanish
both rojo and colorado are red. In addition, just like in English, you colour
something, you do the same with the verb colorear.
All the
above comes to mind frequently when I gaze on one of my favourite roses, Rosa ‘Emily
Carr’.
A few days
ago I was visiting with a photographer friend Storme Morrison who was dog
sitting in a house with a splendid garden. It had many Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ and
because of my age I could not remember its previous name which to my ear is
lovely – monbretia.
I will add
my scan of my Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ to this blog because of its redness.
An I cannot leave this blog without showing how lovely images show on my new 28 inch wide Acer monitor and that 11 blogs from now I will have reached 7000 since I started in January 2006.