Sunday 15 March 2009

A Rose in Suspended Animation


A closer view of a rose that has not decayed. I wonder what makes it survive. I wonder, also, if that is an eye staring out of its centre? Do any of you have items that have preserved themself?

4 comments:

  1. I too have some golden roses that were given to me when Mike died, and I just hung them by the ribbon that was on the vase, from a pretty hook (it's a cat and the hook is it's tail) from the back of the 1/2 bath off my living room (that's where I had to put all the flowers I got because the cats would eat them--it smelled like a florists shop in there). And I do see the eye in your rose...

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  2. I do see the eye in the rose and how pretty it is too - just want to smell it!!! Judith

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  3. I am glad you still have the golden roses,Teri. I took a single red carnation from a wreath at my Father's funeral in 1979 and laid it in a small cardboard box and put it in a drawer with the cards. Thirty years on, it is still preserved, as is another red carnation, I plucked from another wreath - following my Mother's funeral in 2001. I glad I kept them.
    Laurie

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  4. Hello Judith,
    Welcome to my blog. I am glad you can see the eye. I still cannot believe the sheer beauty of the rose!
    Laurie

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