One of the high points of every summer for me is the blossoming of the rose bushes in front of my house. The bushes were planted long before my wife and I purchased the house a few years ago, and they provide much pleasure to our entire family throughout the warmest months of the Minnesota summers. I made the photograph below shortly after a rain shower; it is an example of the beauty that often results immediately before or after inclement weather. It is during such transitions that nature and light can confound into ephemeral wonder.
