Refreshing

I have had this photo on my computer as my desktop background for so long now that I did not realise I had not posted it on my blog. Although it did rain recently, this photo was taken in our garden just after the previous rainfall, several weeks ago. I did not 'mist' the flower with a squirt bottle, as some do, but found the roses exactly like they are photographed here. I find a scene like this very refreshing. The soil was parched where we did not water and seemed so thirsty that it would not even drink. You have seen that, I am sure, where the soil is so bone dry that it cannot absorb the water immediately. Our roses are doing better this year than they ever have, and my resident gardener tells me that it is because of the dryness and the heat. It is interesting that as a result of adversity, such beauty can arise. And have we not also seen this in the human experience? We should not shy away from or be fearful of adversity. It will come, as it always eventually does, but out of it will arise something new, something beautiful.
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