There was no way that we could have escaped November without some severe rain and wind. I just emptied out my rain gauge, which had an inch and a quarter of rain accumulated in just the last three hours. By the way, the background scenery for this blog is VERY appropriate for the Pacific Northwest, don't you think?
I did have enough time this morning to get out in the rose bed and prune some of the longer canes that were being thrashed about by the wind. In the process, I salvaged a small vase-full of late blooms to bring indoors. Below are a couple of photos that I took today -- the first is of the rain in progress, and the second shows the saved blooms gracing the kitchen counter.
It was 4 days ago, November 15, when we had the last sunny day around here, and who knows when we might see a sunny day again. I took advantage of the light to photograph a bloom on one of my German seedlings. As luck would have it, all the higher-up blooms around the rose bed were out of range, so the photo captures just the one open bloom. It's also the one in the tiny vase on the kitchen counter. Here's the photo of November 15:
