We don’t often stop to appreciate nature’s gifts of plants, flowers and trees. They’re all around us, and we don’t always notice them until they interfere with us or we with them. Some trees have grown for ages and have outlived generations. On my block only a few trees are left, but on a smaller scale there are smaller milestones right in the neighborhood. An old friend who lived on my block until 1980 had prized roses around the outside of the house. The new owner has kept them up since then, and the other day she brought some over for my mother.
They are the most beautiful and fragrant roses, and their scent takes me back 35 years with every breath.
Sometimes it’s not the best idea to rip out all the landscaping and start again; some things are best left to their own way of life, like roses and trees. They aren’t a roadblock to progress, but markers of where life has been and will go on.
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