{"id":8168,"date":"2016-07-08T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=8168"},"modified":"2016-07-08T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:11:29","slug":"wild-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/08\/wild-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"WILD ROSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">BY LESLIE REGO<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The last few weeks I have written about flowers that are part of the rose family <i>(Rosaceae<\/i>). In our local national forests, we have a lot of flowers that\u00a0are part of this family, characterized by the petals coming together at the base to create some kind of closed form similar to a cup. Of course, an obvious\u00a0member of this family would be the wild Nootka rose (<i>Rosa nutkana<\/i>), which is blooming right now. I find it terribly romantic when I am out hiking and I\u00a0come upon a wild rose bush. Unlike the commercial roses, which are cultivated for their longevity and tend to lose their lovely fragrance in the process,\u00a0the wild rose gives off a sweet perfume, which gently wafts into the air as you pass by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The rose bush has thick woody stems circled by wicked-looking thorns. The thorns tend to become smaller and smaller as they travel up the bush from\u00a0the thick stem to the smaller twigs which support the flower but, beware, the smaller thorns can still pack quite a punch. The flower itself has five soft\u00a0pink petals surrounding many lemony yellow stamens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The rose as a symbol has been used consistently throughout life. The contrast between the beauty of the rose with the sharp thorn is too vivid to ignore.\u00a0Henry David Thoreau wrote, \u201cTruths and roses have thorns about them.\u201d Anne Bront\u00eb penned, \u201cBut he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave\u00a0the rose.\u201d Rumi whispers, \u201cThe rose\u2019s rarest essence lives in the thorns.\u201d He also murmurs, \u201cI will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too\u00a0have been covered with thorns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">When I pass by a rose bush, all of these contradictory images pass through my mind: the beautiful scent, the velvety pink of the petals, the subtle greens\u00a0of the serrated leaves, and the slender, bristly thorns defending their turf. Who cannot be smitten by the rose? And who cannot be especially smitten by\u00a0the wild rose growing freely within our beautiful national forests?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><i>Leslie Rego is an Idaho Press Club award-winning columnist, artist and Blaine County resident. To view more of Rego\u2019s art, visit www.leslierego.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LESLIE REGO The last few weeks I have written about flowers that are part of the rose family (Rosaceae). In our local national forests, we have a lot of flowers that\u00a0are part of this family, characterized by the petals coming together at the base to create some kind of closed form similar to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,2,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-commentary","9":"category-sketchbook-hiking","10":"category-slider"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}