The Blue Roses

Every spring Rosalie, a Native American girl, and her grandfather sow tiny seeds that blossom into bright flowers. A red rosebush, planted under Rosalie€s bedroom window when she was born, is later joined by pink and yellow ones €œto make a sunset,€ Papa tells her. Rosalie asks for a blue bush, to represent the sky, but Papa explains that roses do not come in blue. When he dies the following winter, Rosalie€s blue rosebush comes to her in her dreams as a symbol of love, memory, and transcendence.