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This is a true story of an
extraordinary little scene that Mom + I found one evening in Florida in
the late '90s.
Enchanted By A Rose
In the late 1990s while in Florida one evening I
was sitting in Mom's livingroom working on jewelry when she rushed in
the house all excited as if she had seen a miracle or something. She
could hardly contain herself!
"Kris! Come outside! You've gotta see this! Come right now!"
"There's a HUGE perfect rose out there and this funny little frog has
just been sitting there staring at it for hours! You've gotta come and
see this!", and she dashed back out the patio door.
So I ran after her to find a scene that looked like an illustration out
of a book of fairy tales! This extraordinary Rose was the largest and
most perfect one I had ever seen in my life! And it was in
flawless full bloom.
And there, in
this almost magical moment seated on one of the Rose's leaves,
was a
most perceptive little frog! While hopping through the garden
that evening it seemed this little frog
had suddenly found itself under the spell of that one perfect
Rose! For hours it sat there enchanted.
Mom and I would check back hour after hour to find it still frozen
under the spell of this magnificent Rose.
But then at last this perceptive little frog awoke
from its enchantment and happily hopped away.
-- Kristen
