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Canon Image Challenge | all galleries >> Challenges From The Past >> 2016 Challenges >> CIC 159 Diverging Or Converging >> Eligible > Divergent Rose
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11-NOV-2016 Dave

Divergent Rose

This late-season rose stands above all the others, reaching to the sky as if a gift to someone no longer present.

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Canon Image Challenge16-Nov-2016 14:33
I've looked at this for a while now. As I was once a grower of roses (56 bushes at the peak) I find this fascinating. I never had a rose climb so high above the main bush. You have a lot more shade in the area than I did, so I suspect it is reaching for the sun.
It makes for a fun and fine picture; and nicely caught against a white cloud with blue sky nearby..

Jim
Guest 16-Nov-2016 01:30
Thanks. There's a backstory to this. My wife's late mother adored roses, so our rose garden is in part a tribute to her. She also loved clowns, which we celebrate every Thanksgiving.

Someone with a keen eye (of which there are many here) should be able to spot something featured in a previous challenge entry.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge15-Nov-2016 03:46
With words like this maybe DAVE worked at Halmark cards previously.
Canon Image Challenge15-Nov-2016 02:46
That is one tall rose and oddly like your Mickey tomatoes last challenge I see this turned sideways on my iPad. Paul
Canon Image Challenge14-Nov-2016 04:56
You also have a way with words...very nicely phrased. Traveller