• Wednesday-What'sUP December 19 - 08:13 pm

Just when you think all the beautiful colors are gone until springtime arrives once again, someone brightens the day with a colorful display. This snowcapped winter rose was spotted by Susan Hooker and seems to be saying, 'Come on winter, throw everything you can at me, I will survive!'. That's kind of the way I feel sometimes when the winter winds howl and the snow keeps falling without end! Whether plant, animal or human being, it takes a lot of Sisu to live here during a U.P. winter. (Yes, I know it's not quite winter yet, but it sure is acting like it is. :->)

Good Wednesday Morning!

Definitely framable!

I think this one is calendar worthy next year. I love red roses and the color is shown off by the snow.

What a beautiful rose.

That is a gorgeous picture for this week before Christmas, the snow on the red rose! Thank you, Susan H. and Mary.

I love this rose picture, what a wonderful Christmas card or a 2009 Pasty calender page this picture would make!!!

A Christmas Rose! Beautiful. Thankyou!

Is that for real? Never seen something like that.

Mary says: Yes Virginia, there really is a snow rose! :->
Susan said in her email to me, "The rose was just one that I hadn't cut back and now I'm glad I didn't."

I've heard of "when the frost is on the pumpkin" before, but "the snow on the rose" is a new one to me!

...."lo how a rose ere blooming"

my thoughts exactly, "One Perfect Flower"

What an exceptionally gorgeous picture! Never saw a rose hang on this long, especially in northern Michigan! Our rose bushes down here still have some green leaves at least.

a rose by any other name still looks like a snow rose. or something like that------i remain walter p.

Susan, that picture is "breathtaking". Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

That is one awesome photo!!!!!Pure beauty!