This post is not about food or drinks, or even about lemons, at all. You see, this post is about what to do when you go outside in the early evening, only to discover that something has been eating your beautiful roses, and has, in fact, chewed off the stem of one of the blooms, leaving it dangling from the bush by a thin cellulose thread.
You snip off the sad, hanging stem and bring it inside. And then, you honor it by putting the bloom in one of your pretty vases, and the rosebuds in another.
And you take a close look at the delicate green sepals and the opening white petals...
And as you gaze into the center of the flower, you plot your revenge for later that evening to hunt those bugs by flashlight.*
Not that I would actually ever do that. No, I dream of relocating the bugs out of my yard...maybe into a nice bug condo with a pool. Or maybe just training them to eat the weeds in the yard instead of the flowers.
Sigh. I guess that that something thought the rose was as lovely as I do (albeit for different reasons). So I appreciate the excuse to enjoy the beauty of these flowers inside (imperfections and all). It's lemons into lemonade, baby.
*Please note that no actual hunting occured nor were any animals harmed in the publishing of this post.
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