Oh, Jim, how sad!

Jim--I hate to see that so early in the year. --Ron

Serena,

Clean out you mailbox, my mail to you is getting rejected...lol

Thanks Seil and Ron... It still snowing and coming down hard..

oh no! you can still see the orange blooms peeping through the snow! poor guy :( ....but it will be here soon enough too

hehe, as you folks guessed, Jim finally broke through to my email system (we "talk" to each other every day, lol!) At first I thought it was the snow and the shoveling keeping him from emailing me, but looks like my clients multiple emails bogged my mailbox system, lol!

And wow, Jim!!! instead of Halloween, you got Christmas! Lucky everyone in Tyrone had Halloween a week early, lol!

That was fun - you surprised me!!

That's pretty, I like the look of snow on roses, just wish winter wouldn't start so early...

How to go dormant in a BIG hurry.

Actually most of the branches popped back into shape and it kept blooming away...lol

There amazingly resilient aren't they! Roses won't begin to be damaged until temps go below about 28 degrees F. And the snow was actually a good insulator for them. Glad the weight of the snow didn't break them though.