Pink roses on a snowy day in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, MS, with a shout out to Cecile Wardlow and the volunteers who look after them. To see the roses in this wonderful old cemetery on a sunny day, click here.
Hope, wherever you are, that the weather is being kind to you.
The snow doesn’t seem to let the snow discourage its beauty
Correction: The snow doesn’t seem to let the rose discourage its beauty.
…and vice versa!
Gorgeous pics!!
Roses and snow are a classic combination.
Oh my! It looks beautiful but I don’t imagine the roses will do too well with this. Thanks for sharing these photos though it is something special to see them under the snow.
A blanket of snow can often protect a rose in a cold climate over the winter, funnily enough. This snow won’t last more than a day or so.
How beautiful!
I could hardly wait to share these.
There is a lot of mystery with the ice and roses.
Roses seem very romantic when they linger on into the snow – as if their tenderness defies the weather.
Roses in the snow! More weather weirding!
In general, you’re right, although most years I have seen frosty roses and rose buds. The best repeaters will flower right up to the frosts in England.
Those certainly are pretty, but I would not have guessed that it would have snowed there already! Is this early?
It’s very early and an unusually thick covering. Benji laid a 2,000 mile blanket of snow from Mexico to New York City.
Stunning.
It was exciting to wake up and see it snowing outside. We hadn’t expected more than a light frosting.
Seems so odd for snow to be on roses lol
I like the effect – I’ve seen many frost covered roses, but these were in 5″ or so of snow.
Beautiful. 🙂
It was one of the most picturesque snowfalls I can remember.
Beautiful. We still have no snow
That might be a blessing! This snowfall was sudden, thick, dryish, leaving the roads clear. It will be gone completely by tomorrow, I’d guess.
Just occasionally when i see lovely photographs like this I wish we had snow, but then i remember England can’t cope with snow so am then relieved we don’t!!
I know what you mean. Mississippi isn’t any better prepared than we are (you’d probably say they are worse prepared because I don’t think they stockpile salt), but luckily the roads retain heat so the snow that fell on them didn’t stick.
You know, of course, my eyes could barely get beyond the buds! These photos are spectacular, and I thank you for them. The open roses are breathtaking, but those little buds are even beyond that. The graceful bough/bow of buds in that first photo is gorgeous — and it seems to have an echo atop the gate triptych. The rose hips in the last photo have their own kind of grace; I do like the life cycle in that photo. Now we know our misfortune in that roses and snow so seldom appear together. This is rare beauty indeed, and beautifully captured. What a start to my day!
It was an opportunity I couldn’t resist. 2017 had been a relative rose drought for me as I kept being in the wrong place at the right time, but this more than made up for it.
Isn’t nature wonderful. What an amazing combination!
Hear, hear!