My bonny Irish and English roses

(Self-portrait, Dana Osburn, 2007)

*WARNING: SHAMELESS PARENTAL BRAGGING ALERT*

My wild Irish rose, Dana, above -- she inherited my mother's Black Irish dark hair and pale complexion -- and my fair English rose, Maggie, in the video following.

(She's first visible at about 0.38 seconds, between a girl on the left in a purple dress with white sleeves and apron, and a girl on her right with a dark blue dress with white sleeves. Maggie's in a gown of pale green, standing just below the two other girls.)



Both of them artists. Both of them beyond beautiful.

How very blessed I am.