Who Was Here This Evening? (Page Two)
Table One
Did You Know? - The people of ancient Greece used roses to accessorize. On festive occasions, they would adorn themselves with garlands of roses and splash themselves with scented oil.
Abe and Eileen Brownstein
Jean and Claude Severance
We saved the photo...
Ken and Amy White
Pencil and paper
Angela and Julian
Table Two
Did You Know? - Roses are truly ageless. Recently, archaeologists discovered the fossilized remains of wild roses over 40 million years old.
Guests Paul and Barbara Rutowski
Barbara Langford and Dennis Steiner
In the gallery
Paul and Sue Liles
Table Three
Did You Know? - Leave it to the romantic French to be the ones to first deliver roses. It was in the seventeenth century that French explorer Samuel deChamplain brought the first cultivated roses to North America.
Kathy and Tom Berg
New Members, Mila and Mike Roberts
Sherrie and Jose Mancera
Who is the masked man?????
Black and white.....
"Guests" The Harrington's
Table Four
Did You Know? - While the rose may bear no fruit, the rose hips (the part left on the plant after a rose is done blooming) contain more Vitamin C than almost any other fruit or vegetable.
Ted and Lauraine Herman
Our stars
William and GeeGee Morey
John and Nadine Kawaguchi
Alla and Jacob Levkov
Table Five
Did You Know? - Myth also has it that Venus' son Cupid accidentally shot arrows into the rose garden when a bee stung him, and it was the "sting" of the arrows that caused the roses to grow thorns. And, when Venus walked through the garden and pricked her foot on a thorn, it was the droplets of her blood which turned the roses red.
Dotti and Bruce Acker
We saw this on the dance floor also.... Nice!! Love is on the air.
Les and Roberta LaZar
Sunnie Leitner
Marion and Ken Scholtz
Margaret and Adrian Otto
Michael and Carmine Howes
Table Six
Did You Know? - Dolly Parton may be known for her music and theme park. But, rose lovers know her for the orange / red variety bearing her name.
Yuriko and Hiroshi Komine
Larry and Penny Guentherman
James and Mary Gisbrecht
Barbara and Michael Shields