It's like the title of one of those children's magazines, but we really are going to look at my backyard. It started off with me seeing our River Oak half dead. It's branches formed a V and the left side cracked and has some fungi growing on the side and lichens inside the crack. I took some photos of this and a family friend suggested I use a macro lens if I had one. Well, I do! So, I explored normally and mainly macroally, so to speak. Also, the sun was out, I could barely see the mobile screen... and also wind. So, none of them are really perfect, but I kind of like their imperfections, because that is nature after all. The Tree: The Flower Garden: So, this rose. It's a non-native species (you can look those up and they don't look like formal tea roses or whatever people call them), but was growing wild all over our land in Moselle. So, how can a non-native rose be wild? Someone planted it a long time ago (30 or more years) and let it go rogue. European roses do great here if left to their own devices as this one was. It's small, very viny, and very bitchy. She's learned to adapt to the wilds of Mississippi for who knows how long and she's tough. Anyways, when she was brought home to our yard she was a light pink, and look what the bees have done!? In ten years they've swirled her with darker pink and white. I just love that. Also they were not blooming when I was out in the back yard two days prior viewing dads food garden and noticing our River Oak. Going back out to take macro shots and she's started blooming. Nature is so fascinating and interesting. That's also her up there in the intro photo, just on a different side of the flower garden from this photo. We refer to her as the Wild Mississippi Rose, so that's what she is. This rose came from my maternal grandmothers house, so we call it the Grandmother Rose. The bees have messed with this one too. She never opened so wide before, as now she's looking more akin to a native species, but she wasn't originally. She was a tighter blooming rose, but she keeps opening up rather flat. She was also a darker red to begin with, but is now a dark pink. I <3 bees!
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