Women of Excellence Lunch

My table at The Women of Excelence lunch today.
Joyce Edwards, Maggie Johnson (Joyce's grand daughter), my niece Julie Kirschner, my sister Dorothy Tietz, my friend (former student and retired teacher) Nancy Lamar Pease, and me.

First Blossom

Two years ago, I purchased three hybrid roses at a bargain price and plopped them in the back 40. The deer or rabbits nibbled one young bush to nothing within a few weeks, but the other two held on throughout the summer and the mild 2011 winter. Now the surviving two bushes are both about three feet tall.