Early dormancy

This past  November was unusually windy, wet, and cold.  The rose bushes were smart enough to call it a year and save their energy for next year by just going dormant.  Here they are in a "stitched" photo that I took two days ago, during a brief respite from the rainy weather:

The rose garden
Photo taken:  December 3, 2014

Mostly GREEN up there, so maybe I should add a bit of color to this post by including photos of two of my unnamed seedling roses which produced some very pretty blooms last summer.  Notice how the petals darken as they age on the blooms of the 'Voodoo' seedling.  The rose bushes below resulted from open pollination of their respective parent roses.

Seedling of the 'Voodoo' rose
Photo taken:  August 31, 2014

Seedling of the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose
Photo taken:  July 26, 2014

This is a very auspicious day to be "blogging", as this marks the Third Anniversary of this blog, which I began on December 5th of 2011.  There's a lot of rose ruminating going on here, and I do hope that you enjoy reading this blog.  For those of you who would like to read the blog in a language other than English, just click on the TRANSLATION drop-down menu at the top of the blog and then select your preferred language.