Hail!

Hail! Literally. It hit the front door like a blast of gravel. I peeked out the front door to check it out. That was scary! The weather was freaky, going from warm and bright, to black skies, high winds and hail in a very short time. So quickly that I had no time to check on any rose bushes.

We had removed the mulch from a couple roses in the front yard but not the ones on the deck. The deck plants had the most leaves and seem very robust. They're growing up right through the mulch, despite the couple below-freezing days we had a week or so ago.

I took a photo of the penny-size hail on the deck in the middle of the storm. The white streaks in the photo are actually falling hail. The hail piled up around the rims of the planters and accumulated on the deck.

Amazingly, we had sunny skies less than two hours after the storm passed and the roses on the deck didn't look damaged at all.

I didn't check the roses in the front yard because I figured if the leafy ones on the deck were fine, the canes in the front yard are probably fine too.