I've been monitoring the progress recently of a magnificent white rose that wraps itself around one of the finer examples of tombstone art in the Chariton Cemetery as it rambles upward --- an inexpensive and harmless diversion in troublesome times.
This photo was taken during 2017 and doesn't show much of the stone it decorates --- purposely. The challenge issued here to patrons of the cemetery --- the pedestrians who exercise there and those who just drive through on a regular basis --- is to find the rose and admire it, too.
It's along a paved lane, easily accessible either on foot or in a vehicle (but please don't strike a pedestrian or a tombstone if you're driving while looking).
Some years, the rose blooms at the same time the peonies do --- this year the peonies will be long gone by the time the roses emerge.
It's been a tough year for peonies, many of which were in full bloom on Memorial Day --- heavy rain soaked heavy blossoms and they just collapsed into the grass.
But here are a few I found last evening while on rose patrol.
And yes, the grass that maintenance staff had managed to manicure between downpours prior to the weekend has shot upward again. I don't envy the mowers and trimmers their jobs.
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