Stop And Smell My Roses http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2008/04/28/stop-and-smell-my-roses/#comment-3920 Thu, 01 May 2008 02:33:59 +0000 http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2008/04/28/stop-and-smell-my-roses/#comment-3920 Dear Adam: Your roses are beautiful, your advice, as usual, right on! It is too bad I can't appreciate their fragance. Home grown roses are always the sweetest,,and a big difference from purchased hybridized ones. I just attented a Rose Show and contest sponsored by the Gainesville Rose Society (Gainesville, as in Shands Hospital at the Univ. of Fla, Gainesville). I had goosebumps while admiring the winning entries, so much beauty. They had a special section for Old Garden Roses sometimes called Heirloom Roses. Those are the ones that grow well here in central Florida with our sometimes humid, most of the times hot climate. They are the roses one sees resting on old fences surrounding old houses in this area, and planted years ago in old Southern cemeteries, hence, they grow on their own, with little care or none at all. John is doing well, just now beginning upper body workout at the cardiac rehab gym, but he is looking forward to improvement every day, and hopefully being able to return to work in June. We'll see. We all have a fresh and new perspective in life. And as the saying goes in Spanish, "No hay mal que por bien no venga" (also the name a Gloria Stefan song!). Roughly translated it is "every cloud has a silver lining". Gob Bless. Mercy, mother of John Turan. Dear Adam: Your roses are beautiful, your advice, as usual, right on!
It is too bad I can’t appreciate their fragance. Home grown roses are always the sweetest,,and a big difference from purchased hybridized ones.
I just attented a Rose Show and contest sponsored by the Gainesville Rose Society (Gainesville, as in Shands Hospital at the Univ. of Fla, Gainesville). I had goosebumps while admiring the winning entries, so much beauty. They had a special section for Old Garden Roses sometimes called Heirloom Roses. Those are the ones that grow well here in central Florida with our sometimes humid, most of the times hot climate. They are the roses one sees resting on old fences surrounding old houses in this area, and planted years ago in old Southern cemeteries, hence, they grow on their own, with little care or none at all.

John is doing well, just now beginning upper body workout at the cardiac rehab gym, but he is looking forward to improvement every day, and hopefully being able to return to work in June. We’ll see. We all have a fresh and new perspective in life. And as the saying goes in Spanish, “No hay mal que por bien no venga” (also the name a Gloria Stefan song!). Roughly translated it is “every cloud has a silver lining”. Gob Bless.
Mercy, mother of John Turan.

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