Winter reading

The past few weeks I have been rose gardening through books from the Hennepin County library. One that I especially enjoyed is R is for ROSE by Carolyn Parker. Carolyn, the author and illustrator, took the letters of the alphabet and expanded it to a 208 page manuscript that I did not want to end. Each rose from Alba, rosa rugosa to Zephirine Drouhin has personal photos and comments about the rose. The book demonstrates Carolyns' artistic photographic ability and success as a rosarian and a rose arranger. You can tell by the quality of the photographs that this book was written over several growing seasons. It was published in 2005 and is a book that I want to add to my personal library.