If you have not been Portland Rose Garden, and you love roses, I would ask you… What are you waiting for? With almost 650 varieties of roses, its a treasure for flower photographers. Whenever I go there, I come away with so many images and I always have hard time picking my favorites and I take my time processing them so they won’t overwhelm me. Today, as I turned 50, I wanted to take sometime to reminisce not just what I have been through in my life but how far my camera took me! All I can say is that I have a great life with a lot of ups and downs and mostly I kept myself happy. I shed enough tears too but my laughs are more lasting than my tears and my fears. I learnt a lot from these flowers. Despite the circumstances, a flower still blooms.