Two Pat Austin Roses...in spite of the heat

If you have been watching the comparison of this year’s weather in North Central Texas to the worst years our area has had to offer in recorded history, you know this has been a challenging one. Let me give those of you living at a remove an idea: when 103 degrees is a perceptible cool-down, it’s been hot!

There’s a lot of fodder for the “worser-than-ever” way of thinking and speaking about things this year, and not just in my rose bed. Yet we live like good citizens within the watering rules for our city, standing in the sun at the end of a hose a great deal. At times, you have to wonder about yourself when you just persist in spite of the circumstances, but then you see this.

A Pat Austin rose, a true English rose, a bit sunburned just like both of us, but bravely budding nevertheless. It made my morning.

Go out today and Find. One. Thing. to affirm your efforts, too!

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