This desert rose in our garden has bloomed since it was given to us three years back. It was a gift to us from our neighbour in the Christian Medical College campus, when we moved to Pondicherry after retirement. Our neighbour has a desert rose garden with at least five different colours and had instructed us to tend it in particular way for it to blossom. Anna followed most of those suggestions meticulously. So it was a joy to see it in bloom on our return from Vellore yesterday after a week of stay. We remembered our neighbour Achamma and Vinohar once again as we admired the flowers.
During our visit to Vellore, while visiting a home, the friends pointed us to a rose with several flowers and told us that it was a gift we gave them on his birthday a year back. We received a beautiful table decoration of flowers, during our stay at Vellore last week. Two friends got flowers from the market and made that decoration themselves which looked most professional.
Flowers are even more special when we receive them as gifts from friends. It provides a continuity of friendships. Of late, flowers bearing plants or cut flowers have become our first choice of gift when we want to share our appreciation of friendship with someone.
Flowers are fresh, fragrant and fragile. Each of these features remind us the canvas of friendships.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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