Kippy, I will try to get some more photos for you. Did you see the "roses recently discussed" thread? There is a photo there. Mine is very tall, like 8 ft high. I thought it was a typical HT. The buds are hot pink and slow to open with a nice fragrance. Blooms last quite awhile. It's more lavender than Love Song...Love Song finally has put out some decent blooms but the Huey rootstock just doesn't work for my garden. I will likely reorder on multiflora. Susan

Yeah Ive seen them at Petsmart for 10$ and sometimes they go even lower then that! I would get one but between my cat, dog, fish, pond fish, budgie, and plants I don't think I'd have enough time to take care of one! Or have the room..... One day I shall get one! One day!

Hmmmm...... Habits??? As long as this post lasts I could show the seeds I have planted this year as they grow. I never knew how impatient I was until I planted these seeds!!! This is what it looked like the day I planted. This was May 6th, which is a special day for me because it's the day my only sister, who was my very best friend lost her battle with cancer. I always do something that we wanted to do together. I took my first ever hot air balloon ride and came home and planted my seeds. She had my Mom's green thumb and could make anything grow and thrive. I like to think she was right there beside me.

My sister has a different approach. When our mother died, she left behind a few boxes of old (and I mean old) family photos from both her family and my late father's family. She also left behind albums of her own RCAF service in WWII, and some photos and a scrapbook of a couple of my dad's voyages (he was engineer on an ocean-going tug). Sis took photos of my mom's younger brother, killed during WWII, to the tiny local museum where they grew up. Uncle Stuart's photo is now on their War Memorial wall. She took some photos of Mom's air force service to the aviation museum at the airport where she served. She took photos and memorabilia of my Dad's historic tugboat trip (yes, don't laugh, there are such events!) to the Maritime Museum in Vancouver. And she sent photos of my grandparents' homesteading days on the Prairies to the local museum back there, as well. All were delighted to have them! I've passed on some photos she gave me of our maternal grandparent's earlier years in England to a local historian back there who has an interest in the historic house they lived in, and had previously written about the family. He's now added a bit more to their story on his blogsite, and even dug up some information we didn't know about, including a couple of photos. So, while I may not have my grandparent's wedding photo up on a wall, it and they are memorialized on line in an article he wrote about them!