Rose Drops

My second pair of flowers in two days, this time on an afternoon walk to the post office to turn in our change-of-address forms. The morning's moderate to heavy rain had let up, giving these delicate roses a chance to accumulate generous raindrops. (Previous raindrop blips are an iris and colorful leaves.)

I watched much of the rain-truncated Ryder Cup in the morning, rooting for the Americans. I'd say, "of course," but musing about it I recalled that when I first started paying attention to the Ryder Cup, I think around 1980, the Americans had completely dominated, and I rooted for the Europeans both as underdogs and because I'd spent so much good time in Europe. Now the Europeans have won 8 of the last 12 Ryder Cups, and so I've reverted to my natural allegiance.