Red Rose by Eve Anderson

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A Friend Knows

Here is a special rose picture that one of my friends on FaceBook posted to their page.  I liked it so much that I added it to this blog for all to see!

The Rose

The Rose
Originally uploaded by Aquarius (Gerda)

The rose speaks of love silently in a language known only to the heart.
This rose is too beautiful to pass up.

My Granddaughter's Rose

Granddaughter's Rose
Originally uploaded by BetsyIckes

The reason I call this My Granddaughter's Rose is because the day my granddaughter was born, this rose bush started to bloom. My granddaughter was born premature so this blooming rose seemed almost like a sign from above that everything was going to be alright.

Ring Around The Roses

Here is what this photgraper had to say about this photo:

A pocketful of posies,
Atishoo! Atishoo!
We all fall down!

Many children's Nursery Rhymes have their origins in historical events, more often than not rather unpleasant ones!
I personally find these origins fascinating.

"Ring a Ring O' Roses" is said to be a macabre parody on the horrors of the Great Plague. One of the first signs of the plague was a ring of rose-coloured spots, and the protection against this terrible disease was, in popular belief, a posy of herbs. Sneezing was taken as a sure sign that you were about to die of it, and the last line "We all fall down" omits the word, "dead"!

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