Louise loves flowers and plants of all kinds. Before we moved to our farm in McLemore Cove we lived in a subdivision where she managed to find space in the back yard for a garden. It was only about 15 by 15 feet, but was so productive that my dad called it "Louise's mini-farm!"
Even now, when our home is an RV, she manages to keep some small plants in pots. They go wherever we go.
She also has an uncanny ability to keep cut flowers alive in
vases far longer than would seem possible.I say uncanny, but it may be that she just has learned some of the techniques florists use. But it seems uncanny to me.
Back in our subdivision days. I had
given Louise some roses for her birthday, which is on March 8. It was early April
when she finally decided they had exceeded their shelf life and put them on a
table on the deck, probably intending to dry them and make potpourri of the petals. (She also doesn't like things to go to waste.) However, an unseasonably late snow dropped a few inches on the roses in the middle of the day and quickly melted away.
But not before I made a photograph of roses in snow. (Hasselblad camera and Kodak Ektachrome 64 film.)
Photograph and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.
I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday unless life gets in the way.
Soli Gloria Deo
For the glory of God alone
My most recent book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, is a 304-page soft-cover with more than 200 color photographs. Published by Countryman Press, it is priced at $22.95. Signed and inscribed copies are available directly from me at (423) 240-2324 or djphoto@vol.com.
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