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Graham Thomas ©2004-2016 Suzanne G. McClendon
Rays on my petals
Sunshine in the summertime
Freeing me to grow.
©2 August 2016 Suzanne G. McClendon
This haiku was based on this particular prompt: Sunshine
About Suzanne Gunter McClendon
I am a South Carolina native, but have been living on the Texas Gulf Coast for 17 years now. David and I have been married for almost 38 years. Our children are grown. We have two grandchildren and one on the way. I try to learn something new every day. My obsession is genealogy/family history research.
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lovely, and blooming haiku! 🙂
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Thank you, Rosema. 🙂
The rose pictured was one of my favorite antique roses. It died during the drought several years ago.
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oh dear. atleast it is still alive in this photo and in your words. 🙂
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Oh yes, and I got to enjoy it for awhile. I was even able to take cuttings from it and grow new plants, but the drought got all of my roses. I had a beautiful pink one, too, called Belinda’s Dream. 🙂
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awwwwwww. you have new ones now?
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Not now. I may try to grow roses here again some day, but everything is fighting against me. I have 4 tomato plants out there right now that are not making tomatoes. Everybody else is getting tomatoes from their plants already. Mine just get taller and make more leaves, but no flowers and no tomatoes. We’ve had two floods this year, and then more drought and excessive heat. I don’t know what to do to make them get tomatoes sprouting.
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Oh dear. I believe we had the same kind of tomato here. I have no green thumb but my father planted tomatoes that has never bore a fruit. Geez.
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Have you had a lot of rain there? Or a lot of drought? I’m sorry that your daddy’s tomato plants didn’t grow tomatoes either.
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because of rain and flood. now dad is growing calamansi. 🙂
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I’m sorry you’ve had flooding, too. 😦
What is calamansi?
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Calamondin in english. 🙂
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Thank you. I did a search on it and it is something that I likely could not have. I am allergic to many citrus fruits and on the site that I found it was compared to limes and oranges. I bet it tastes great. 🙂
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Oh. Sorry to hear that. It sour. Like really sour that no one eats it as it is. It is more often use as spice or sauce ingredient. 😃
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It’s okay. It sounds like an interesting fruit. 🙂
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it is. 😉
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Welcome at Carpe Diem with a nice haiku. Hope to see you again.
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Thank you. I plan to be a part of this as often as I can. Have a blessed day.
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Thank you. Feel free to visit us again.
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Thank you. Have a great night.
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Lovely!
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Thank you! I hope that you have a beautiful weekend. 🙂
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