Mid summer day....

....and mammy's rose begins to open. Mammy saying hello?

I took this rose bush from my mother's garden after she died and brought it to my own garden. That was 24 years ago in 1989. I also have a rose bush my dad planted the day Pope John Paul came to Ireland - that was in 1979. I have both bushes beside each other and love looking out at the roses as they bloom.