Monday, October 5, 2020

Summer's Last Rose

Many of Michelle's clients have domiciles in the Largehomes Ghettos at the base of the Sandia Mountains. One couple who summer in Vancouver, B.C. and take their cats with them hired her to come to their house to harvest the tomatoes and chili peppers, water the plants and start the two expensive cars that sit in the garage; one's battery went dead anyway.


Their back yard is hardly bigger than ours and lacks our two large cottonwoods and elm. They'd not asked Michelle to deadhead the rose, and when she called me to come look, it appeared to have long since played itself out. But it had within it one last HURRAH. And, as you can see, it is a beauty.










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