Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Rose That Didn't Bloom


It's remarkable how much the stay-at-home order has affected our lives.  As an old (and face it, we are) retired couple, we didn't do much that is being discouraged now, but the fact that we are prohibited from doing things we had no desire to do a few months ago is getting on my nerves. 
Another thing I've discovered is that things we might not have even noticed in April of 2019 have assumed huge importance.  
For example - Honey's favorite rose is a pink beauty called Belinda's Dream.  We have been watching the first rosebud of the season getting fatter every day for the past week. Then this morning we went out to find the bud on the ground.  Overnight something had severed the stem.
In a normal world, we might not have even noticed, but today we were almost in mourning.

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