little shoots

Not in the ground, but rather little shoots in the spirit, the kind that have to come up after a major upheaval and turning of soil.
My sense of humor got kinda shot the past three months. Ever since March when my father-in-law died. He funded all my rose plantings. He had a terrific, unstoppable sense of humor and still laughed up till he lost his voice a couple days before he died. He loved flowers of every kind. I suppose I let my humor go with him. But I noticed small shoots coming up the other day. It's impossible to live this life without humor and more impossible to keep a blog without humor and most impossible of all to tend, um...

LIVING:
Fair Bianca on the Deck
Fair Biancas 1 & 2 in the front yard
Molineux on the Deck
Lost Tag Forgot Name DA rose on the Deck
New Dawn at the base of the deck stairs
Graham Thomas in the patio area
Jude the Obscure in the patio area
Pat Austin in the patio area
Eden in the patio area
Another Lost Tag Forgot Name DA rose in the patio area
Happy Little No Roses Yet in the back yard
Another Happy Little No Rose Yet in the back yard
Bright Red Forgot Name rose by the swing
Blush Noisette in Prince Charming Serenade Spot
Zepherine Drouhin by the chimney
Scepter'd Isle by the mail box
Jude the Obscure in the ditch
James Galway in the front yard
Queen of Denmark in the front yard
Rose of the Nifty Thorns in the front yard

DEAD:
Molineux in the patio area
Pat Austin in the patio area
Some Lovely Red and White rose in the backyard
Another Lovely Red rose in the backyard
Two More roses in the backyard
Two Roses in the front yard

WAITING ROOM BUCKET:
Pat Austin
Heritage

without some kind of sense at all.

At least I pruned them all at the right time, after the first flush of blooms.
The scent from the Blush Noisette is really strong. I'm going to plant another one of those next year. It's cute and quite healthy.