One of these roses is a variegated variety…meaning it is splotchy or sort of striped. Not sure why they would breed it that way. It’s kind of showy…almost gaudy. I didn’t paint it that way…for various reasons. It’s pretty perfumey too. I wonder how many more days these roses have…on Sunday it will be a week. We’re keeping some of them refrigerated…we’ll see. ( Today is the anniversary of our first date…5 years ago…but this blog is not about that. Still, maybe it’s no coincidence that the universe showered us in roses this week.)