Ugliness vs Beauty

Today my father-in-law managed to escape when I wasn't looking. Alzheimer's sure is a rough disease. It's a prison of confusion and ugliness. It's a maze of torturous proportion. It's a video set on endless looping. Alzheimer's can turn a simple object or false memory into the center of the universe and then force it's victim to pay homage for hours on end.

Fortunately for both my father-in-law and me, he got distracted by piles of pine needles on a junked car windshield in our side yard. He spent the next hour hand-picking pine needles off the windshield. By the time he finished, he was content to go back in the house. Which meant I in turn no longer had to look at the disgusting junked car covered with pine needles.

Yup, the junked car is a view you'll never see in my rose blog. There's actually two cars, one pickup and an old van that are good for nothing but an ugly view. Even more unfortunately, they're in shade so I can't buy some kind of creeping, rambling roses that are good for covering whole buildings. Believe me, I tried and one of these days I'll find the perfect plant to cover the whole mess.

In the meantime, I choose to turn my back on the ugliness in life and only focus on beauty. Which is why, this day, February 20, 2007, there are no less than 22 bare root English Roses from David Austin on their way to my house. If Ugliness wants to put up a fight, it might as well give up right now. Beauty is going to win.

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And one of these days, my own home-grown roses will grace my table instead of store-bought roses.