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While the dew is still on the roses



2017-05-15 - Julia Horton Memorial Rose Garden, TRH, 201 Jamestown Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, Columbiamagazine.com(c) .
Mother's Day, searching for Red & White roses to illustrate an old Mother's Day Tradition - wearing a red rose pinned to lapels to indicate one's mother was still living, a white one for one who was already in heaven, I found that one of Dr. John Burns Horton's favorite sayings was that "Roses don't like wet feet," and bright red and healthy whites were in short supply this year. But this pink rose, sprinkled, not baptized, had waterdrops which evoked "In the garden" strains in my head. The item was to go with another reminder my sister Jean (one of my three favorite sisters - all wonderful mothers) told me - that tradition - in her story, "Remembering Mother: Growing up on Jamestown Hill" accessed by clicking Read More. Special thanks to the reader who still hasn't been coaxed out of anonymity, who critiqued it as "An Instant CM Classic." - EW


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