Rosebud

This particular less-than-prefect rosebud is known as the 'Birthday Rose'. When our son was born almost 21 years ago, this was flowering in the garden. Mu husband brought me a bloom into the hospital. Since then, it has rarely flowered on Edward's birthday, but this year it looks as if it will.

It is an ideal blip to fit with DDW's Movie challenge for 'Citizen Cane' - one of those films I should have watched but haven't - in which there is reference to a mysterious 'rosebud'; I think I must watch this one to see what happens!

Charles Foster Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher, has been living alone in Florida on his vast palatial estate, Xanadu, for the last years of his life, with a "No Trespassing" sign on the gate. On his deathbed, he holds a snow globe and utters the single word, "Rosebud", before dying; the globe slips from his hand and smashes on the floor. Kane's death becomes sensational news around the world. Newsreel reporter Jerry Thompson becomes intrigued, and decides to learn all he can about Kane's private life to discover the meaning of "Rosebud".