Bryant and Barbara gave Sylvia a gift card for Mother’s Day.  It has become their tradition.  Sylvia’s tradition is to use that gift card to buy a rose and some other flowers for the gardens.  This year was no exception.

Sylvia went shopping and came home with a rose called Joseph’s Coat.  At least I think that’s what she said.  The following photos will show you why it is called that.

I took these photos this morning.  The cloudy sky did a beautiful job of diffusing sunlight, which meant no post-shoot processing.  Actually, I did crop and resize the images.  This is my practice so that you get faster downloads and so that I use less server storage space for the images.  (You can click on the images, but they are already full-size.)