http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/Golddigger/29156 It is summer in Denmark. The roses in my garden are blooming, and the scent of the beautiful flowers will fill the air especially in the charasteristic nordic evenings where the light of the sun disapers around 10 pm. I have a lot of different roses in my garden. A row of pale pink ones, which are old roses probably as old as my house from 1924. I have a purple wild rose from my parents garden. Some white ones I got at my 40th birthday and they are now climbing in an arch at the entrance to the garden and soon I will plant some charity-roses from the organization Zonta and support womens life and indepence around the world, but there is one rose in my garden, which is a daily joy and pleasure. It is yellow with red an pink shade colours too and its scent is so powerfull that you will have to stop and just inhale it whenever you pass. Some years ago when I turned 35, i invited all the women who had crossed my why to celebrate my birthday with a brunch-party. I was surrounded with family, friends from my early schooldays, from highschool and the Danish School of Journalism, collegues and some of the new friends who comes with motherhood: Mothers of children at the same age as my own, and one of those new friends brought me this present, a little roseplant in a pot. &ldquo;This is a very lovely climbing rose&rdquo;, she told me and I placed it in a corner of my courtyard. And she was right. The rose has grown big and beatiful and every summer the sight and scent of it will remind me of one of the best birthday-partys in my life and of a good friend. So thank you very much, Salli-Ann, for a rose and a friendship. It is summer in Denmark. The roses in my garden are blooming, and the scent of the beautiful flowers will fill the air especially in the charasteristic nordic evenings where the light of the sun disapers around 10 pm. I have a lot of different roses in my garden. A row of pale pink ones, which are old roses probably as old as my house from 1924. I have a purple wild rose from my parents garden. Some white ones I got at my 40th birthday and they are now climbing in an arch at the entrance to the garden and soon I will plant some charity-roses from the organization Zonta and support womens life and indepence around the world, but there is one rose in my garden, which is a daily joy and pleasure. It is yellow with red an pink shade colours too and its scent is so powerfull that you will have to stop and just inhale it whenever you pass. Some years ago when I turned 35, i invited all the women who had crossed my why to celebrate my birthday with a brunch-party. I was surrounded with family, friends from my early schooldays, from highschool and the Danish School of Journalism, collegues and some of the new friends who comes with motherhood: Mothers of children at the same age as my own, and one of those new friends brought me this present, a little roseplant in a pot. &ldquo;This is a very lovely climbing rose&rdquo;, she told me and I placed it in a corner of my courtyard. And she was right. The rose has grown big and beatiful and every summer the sight and scent of it will remind me of one of the best birthday-partys in my life and of a good friend. So thank you very much, Salli-Ann, for a rose and a friendship. en-us Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:46:47 PDT <p>Marianne, that climbing rose IS beautiful... and it has done well in these few years since your 35th birthday. </p> <p>I am interested in your summers.  How hot is it now, and how cool does it get when the sun finally goes down at 10 p.m.?</p> <p>I think it's good to look at your roses and think of friends, because friends ARE the roses in our lives!</p> http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/Golddigger/29156/#c_264543 http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/Golddigger/29156/#c_264543 <p>Marianne, that climbing rose IS beautiful... and it has done well in these few years since your 35th birthday. </p> <p>I am interested in your summers.  How hot is it now, and how cool does it get when the sun finally goes down at 10 p.m.?</p> <p>I think it's good to look at your roses and think of friends, because friends ARE the roses in our lives!</p> <p>Your roses look beautiful!!</p> http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/Golddigger/29156/#c_268092 http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/Golddigger/29156/#c_268092 <p>Your roses look beautiful!!</p> <p>Marianne! What a lovely way to commemorate your friendships - truly a gift with many returns! It must be heavenly to walk by and smell your roses.</p> <br /> http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/Golddigger/29156/#c_270595 http://www.bakersfieldvoice.com/home/Blog/Golddigger/29156/#c_270595 <p>Marianne! What a lovely way to commemorate your friendships - truly a gift with many returns! It must be heavenly to walk by and smell your roses.</p> <br />