Benjamin Britten & a Lemon

alexwh
Photographs, Photography & Words
1 min readJul 21, 2019
Rosa ‘Benjamin Britten’ 20 July 2019 — scanograph — Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

English Rose, Rosa ‘Benjamin Britten’ had 9 open blossoms today in my Vancouver garden. I still had a feeling of guilt in snipping three for today’s blog.

As I often have written here and worth repeating I find that roses more than any other plants in my garden conjure ghosts of my past or people long dead who may have moved the world either through philosophy, military fame, literature, steel making pioneer or two or in music.

I wrote about Benjamin Britten the English composer here related to my friend David Lemon. I saw Lemon recently here. Lemon has an easy smile and a positive outlook to life. So when I gazed on these brilliantly bright blossoms I could not but think of him.

Britten at home & in a cabaret

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alexwh
Photographs, Photography & Words

Into Bunny Watson. I am a Vancouver-based magazine photographer/writer. I have a popular daily blog which can be found at:http://t.co/yf6BbOIQ alexwh@telus.net