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@KatalinaCraft 11 October 2021 more from that month

My Grandmother’s Roses My grandmother loves plants in general but her absolute favorites are flowering plants. One day, my mom and her sister decided to take her to a garden center just to cheer her up. She saw these striped roses (called Painted Bourbon Roses, if I am not mistaken), and she immediately fell in love. In our community, this variety of roses is very uncommon. It was probably her first time seeing one. They had 5 pots of these for sale and she said she wanted to buy them all. Her reasoning: “I want to be the only one in our town who owns them.” 😂 And so my grandmother came home with 5 pots of 3 different color combinations of these roses. Unfortunately the other four are not flowering at this time so I only managed to take a photo of one. My grandmother is so competitive. She had been alive (a child) when the Japanese invaded the country during World War II and we can see how her time has influenced her personality. Back then, they had to take refuge in the mountains because their town had been a battlefield. It was more of a “survival of the fittest” for her rather than the actual childhood that we know nowadays. I still have lots of stories from her to share but those will have to be for another post. Do you also love hearing stories from your grandmother? Their time is just so different from ours! #rose #nature #originalphoto #originalcontent #katsphotography

3 comments

@Sunnylife 11 October 2021

ang ganda nya sis parang paint na roses sya Kaya masarap kausap mga matantanda dami nilang kwento sa nakaraan :)
@KrisCastro 11 October 2021

Ganyan din bet ko s flowers yung two toned. Ang stylish kasi tignan eh parang damit lang hehe. Naku naalala ko lolo ko. Pag mga recent na ganap ulyanin sya. Pero pag panahon ng hapon malinaw talaga memories nya. Halatang ang hirap ng buhay nila dati nung WW2. No wonder yung lola mo palaban.
- @KatalinaCraft 12 October 2021
  
  Yup, sis. Though yung lola ko medyo sharp pa rin siya until now, mas nakaka-amaze na kahit yung memories niya nung bata siya e parang sobrang vivid pa. Ang detailed nung pagkakwento niya from the moment na nakita nila nung friends niya yung mga barkong paparating (since nakatira sila sa coastal area) to pag evacuate nila sa bundok at kung paano sila nag set up camp doon. Siguro medyo similar experience sa lolo mo.