The photohunt theme this week is wide open. We can share any photograph. I decided to pick a photograph that I had taken this week. 
Since this is mother's day weekend, I am posting photographs from my yellow rose bush. My mother died in 1990 when she was 65, and I always associate yellow roses with her because she loved them so much. For many years after my mom died, my yellow rose bush had its first rose of the season, on her birthday in June.
However, in recent years the bush switched over to having its first blooms around mother's day which is also very appropriate. Although my other roses were very early this year and have been blooming for many weeks, the bush I think of as my mother's roses, had its first roses this week. I took the second shot on Tuesday and the other two on Thursday.
I had intended to pick one shot for this week's theme, and decided to select which one of the roses I would have cut to take to my mom if she was still alive. Since I decided that I would have taken her all three, I am posting all three. Happy mother's day weekend!
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82 comments:
Beautiful.
This is a coincidence...really. My mom loved yellow roses above all other flowers. She grew some climbing ones on the garage side of the house where I grew up. People would stop and ask her to cut one or two for them as they walked by on summer evenings and she was tending them.
When she passed away, much to my my bossy aunt's chagrin, I had spray of yellow roses placed on her casket. No ribbons or adornments, just yellow roses.
People asked to cut one or two as a remembrance.
It is the single lovely thought that my brother and I share of that time. We both thought Mama would have liked to share her roses once more.
Happy Mother's Day to your mom and to mine.
Love, K.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Sonnet XVIII, Wm. Shakespeare
i also thought of a flower as a tribute on mother's day.
i love the roses and the color is great.
happy weekend!
I love yellow roses also!! Yours are beautiful!!
What a beautiful rose and a wonderful way to remember your mum. Have a great weekend
What a lovely way to remember your mother and what great timing. Have a wonderful weekend...
These are so beautiful, I think my favorite is the first picture, but what an incredible way to commemorate your Mum. All your pictures are so gorgeous, if you could hear the gasps as they load on my dial up internet here, you would think I am choking on my toast.:)
I am getting my Mum some red roses, a little out of season but they are still beautiful.
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i bet you have more of these beautiful flowers in your garden.
happy weekend!
great one for photohunt entry!!! mine's up too hope to see there!
OH MY! I think this is just the most precious tribute to your mom. That is just wonderful and such beautiful roses to remember her by!
Beautiful flowers and tribute to you Mother :)
Happy photo hunting Carver, and thanks so much for visiting my entry earlier :)
I got a rose too for my mom!
you've wonderful photo and post in here.
happy hunting!
Very pretty flowers. I love the color yellow. :)
Those are beautiful roses. I'm not so handy in the garden, but my kids seem to grow pretty well ;)
Beautiful... just stopping by to say these are spectacular... the one with the water drops are amazing!!
Beautiful roses, Carver, very fitting photos for Mother's Day.
Have a great Mother's Day celebration!
Carver, those yellow roses shots are beautiful. Love the the one water droplets on it.
It's sweet how you've associated the yellow roses in remembering your mom :)
Have a good weekend!
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that's such a nice way of remembering your mum. Red roses always remind me of my grandad, as he gave me a red rose bush when I moved into my first house, i was gutted to have to leave it there when I moved.
Wow, those are great photo and the love you show for your mother.
Oh my gosh that rose is gorgeous. *sigh*
Wah so fresh.. so beautiful!! Happy Mother's day to your mom...
Lovely! My mom associates roses with her dad. He had lovely gardens that my grandma kept up for years after his death. My mom was only 28 when he died, I was born 19 days later.
This is real nice of you to pay tribute to you Mom all these years. Those are some beautiful yellow roses you have there. Happy Mothers' Day to all mothers out there :)
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How gorgeous! I have no green thumb, I would kill a dandelion! Happy Mother;s Day sweetie...I havent really been participating, my sisiter is KissedAlotAtoads...our brother is seriously ill, and sis moved to TENN and is trying to get a life on track...Anyway, My hunt is up, please come and visit soon
That is a gorgeous rose! Have a great weekend!
Those are very beautiful yellow roses. I'm sure your Mom would have loved them.
Happy Mother's Day, Carver!
*hugs*
It's beautiful! :)
Great choice for this week's theme.
Beatiful flower!
Happy mother's day and have a nice weekend too~
Beautiful photos Carver. I always find yellow roses difficult to grow but this one is splendid.
What a beautiful rose and a lovely memorial for your mother. I happened to do a tribute to my mother, as well.
wow...beautiful flowers
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lovely shots
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A love tribute to your mom - and the timing of its blooms really seems appropriate. Great shots! My roses just have buds - no blooms. But my lilac is blooming deliciously - love the smell of that bush. I cut a few of its blooms the other day and put the vase on my bedstand - when I woke up during the night, I smelled it! Very pretty! Have a great week-end, Carver!
wow roses and my hubby's favorite color...happy hunting and happy mother's day.
Beautiful post, Carver. Not only because of the amazing shots but because of the story behind those yellow roses. Happy Mother's Day to you, it was celebrated last week in Spain.
Love the last rose with the little guy on the left. Happy weekend and happy hunting :)
Those are beautiful shots of yellow roses. I love roses too particularly reds.
Happy Mother's Day!
Great yellow colors!
Beautiful roses and a great post for your mother.
Happy Weekend.
I love the first picture as the flower is shown in full bloom up close.
Happy Mother's Day, Carver!
Love the dew on the top photo!!!
For my photo hunt, my sweet cheeks and I are celebrating our 40 year wedding anniversary. Stop by for a piece of our wedding cake.
Happy weekend.
Wonderful flower shots!
Really lovely those yellow roses. My favourite colour! Great photo's.
Such a beautiful rose and a wonderful way to remember your mother.
Have a greate weekend!
This a lovely tribute to your mother. I also gave MotherDear yellow roses. It is her favorite color rose.
Beautiful choices. I wouldn't have choses just one either.
Thanks so much to everyone for visiting my photohunt post and happy weekend!
They are beautiful roses. Do they have a perfume too?
Sooo beautiful Carver! I also took a yellow rose in our garden some days ago and made it into an advert for our hotel's Mother's Day Brunch. But today I Mothers Day wasn't in my mind at all...
Very nice story to go along with your photos!
Have a great weekend!
Carver, these are beautiful blooms as usual! What a wonderful reminder of your mother! :)
Great minds think alike...i did flowers too! I loved your post! HOw lovely! HAPPY MOTHER's day! (i still never finished nor sent the email..sorry..i will)
Wonderful! And the story... if that isn't proof of more beyond this life, I don't know what is.
My roses are nowhere near booming yet. It has been such a cold spring in my neck of the woods. Mayethey will bloom longer into the summer.
So sweet of you to think of your mom and posted her favorite yellow roses on Mother's Day weekend. It's so touching.
I so love that color I am sure you did that for the YELLOWROSE OF TEXAS:)
What a beautiful, touching post - the roses are gorgeous. Have a lovely weekend!
Thanks again to everyone for visiting my photohunt post. Fun seeing what everyone chose for the wide open theme.
Wow, your roses already looks so great?! Beautiful.
It's like I can reach out and touch it!
Mine's up too :)
Beautiful flowers and a lovely way to remember your mother.
Simply breathtaking roses!!!! You've captured them well and even with water drops! Very lovely!!!!!
It even means more when we can associate them with a loved one...
I adore yellow roses. What a lovely tribute to your mother, Carver :)
Hope you have a really nice weekend.
A touching, not to mention beautiful tribute.
What a gorgeous rose...
they're beautifully shot, yellow roses are one my favorite as well
Such beautiful roses, and (naturally!) beautiful photos. You have honoured us by sharing this.
What a wonderful photo! Yellow roses are one of my favorites! Thanks for sharing them.
Mine is up...come on over!
Beautiful shots - my Mum loved roses too.
A lovely rose and a beautiful colour.
WOW! I adore and admire Roses and these shots are beautifully captured!
You have such great photography!
ohhh lala!!cant find a word!!its soooooooo beautiful!!
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Thanks again to everyone for visiting my photohunt post. Next week is candy. I can hardly wait, ha.
Roses always make me think of my mother too. She passed away 3 1/2 yrs ago. Her birthday is also in June.
Pretty photos! :D
oh i love yellow roses! these are great micros.
thanks for the visit and Happy Mother's Day! :)
Such beautiful roses and a wonderful tribute to your mom. I am sure she would have loved them.
That is a beautiful flower in any circumstances and a fitting one for remembrance. Thanks for sharing.
Have a great weekend.
happy mothers day Carver.
i love yellow flowers!
Nice flowers..
yellow roses. that's rare here. happy mother's day to your mom (wherever she is right now)!
Thanks again to everyone for visiting and commenting on my photohunt post.
awww very sweet. and a happy mothers day to you too!
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I also did some flowers for Photohunt in anticipation of Mother's Day! It just always makes me think of flowers! My mom is in another state but I had some flowers delivered to her for Mother's Day.
What beautiful roses! Hope you had a nice Mother's Day.
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