Stopping to smell the roses

(Actually, I'm stuffed up right now, so there was no smelling involved. But I did stop to admire the roses.)

I was kind of caught off guard by the following two blooms on the patio of my rental house yesterday.


I don't know if they had just bloomed [ or bloomed more] recently? Or if I had not seen them because I'm not home during the daylight hours during the week?

It was a good reminder that sometimes we are surrounding by wonderful things and don't even realize it. So, remember to stop and smell (or admire) the roses in your life.