A Beauty Unexpected

 

 

Roses grew alongside the deck on the north side of the house until the deck collapsed. 

We grew ornamental grasses then and built a wider deck.

The grasses fanned out and during summer we watched all the wild things visit.

Drought flattened the grass to straw. Water became scarce.

One year a rose leaf slid up through a crack in the deck no longer new

It grew. 

How many years now did I say it was a sucker off the root?

John smiled to predict a blossom

Which it did

Today.