I'm with you, Belle!

Well, of course.

My daughter the fresh-minted vehicles engineer and I were taking a sightseeing stroll through her town and she said, "Nice car", which I heard as "Nice garden". We perceive what we're trained to perceive.

I've said this before: if you join Geni.com geneological site and start looking up people like the Duchesse de Brabant to see if you're related.

Wanting to eat your roses as in rose cake or rose tea. When people buy you rose soap for Christmas or a wheelbarrow for your birthday. Of course those are fine gifts.

These are great! I never saw any of The Sopranos, but I might want to watch The Safranos!

...when you return from several weeks out of town and hug your husband saying "I missed you so much" while you're also looking out the window at your roses.

For the record, I did miss him too...

Cynthia

... when you wake up in the middle of explaining to someone that the new rose you have developed is called 'Alnmein', pronounced like "Ann mine".

When you have more pictures on your phone of roses and plants than you do of your kids..feel guilty even saying that but its true 😂

Sultry, I have hundreds of roses and one child: naturally the plant photos predominate. Doesn't mean I don't adore the girl.

That's a good rationalization!

Good thread!

You know you're obsessed with roses whenever you hear a phrase/word/name of a person that you know is a name of a rose and you HAVE to share that information...."Oh, there's a rose called that!"