Taylors Rose, A gift? Options

[Taylorsmum]

Hello.
I just want to share something.

I really love my garden and throughout spring I was planting and landscaping getting all ready for summer.

On the 3rd June we had to let Taylor my beautiful bulldog go.
It has crushed me.
When we returned home I noticed that the first rose on my tree had opened and I was pretty angry about it. Nothing was beautiful anymore. My husband said it's Taylors rose.
I was pretty close to destroying my garden because it seemed obscene that it could start to flourish and look pretty when all I felt was despair.
As days passed I would glance at the rose not really admiring it but feeling it was a reminder.
The last few days the other roses have now opened. They are red. All red, except the first one which is fuscia in colour.
I rang my mum and asked her if roses on the same bush could be a different colour. She told me she didnt think so and had never seen it.

When my husband came home I showed him the rose and asked 'is that a different colour to the rest?' a reality check for me! He said 'yes..why'

I checked out the roses name and they are called 'love knots'.
I have now taken the rose before its petals fall and I am pressing the flower. I will frame it and name it 'Taylor's Rose'.

I asked for a sign that she is somewhere safe and happy. I think I received my sign in a slightly different manner than I was expecting.
When I thought that perhaps my girl sent me a rose I cried a bucket but as a cynic who desperately wants to believe, my strange rose is bringing some comfort.

I like to think she's telling me that she WILL be waiting at Rainbow Bridge.

Think of all those amazing reunions! Peace to you all.

[AngelBaby]

I really love this thread on signs...

I haven't posted on this forum for months. It has been 10 months since my little Toffee (toy poodle) went to Heaven. Not a single day has gone by that hasn't left me thinking about him and missing him.

Oh, I have had so many amazing signs. Three months ago I was waiting in the van with my other dog while members of my family went in to reserve a house rental for the summer. I kept thinking about Toffee and feeling very sad. I wished I could see him. I wished I could hold him. I cried a little and fell asleep thinking about him. I must have been sleeping for 15 minutes.

For some reason, I woke up suddenly and looked out the window. A lady with a white poodle who was walking by in one direction, and another lady with a black toy poodle who was walking by in the other direction, came together and met right in front of the van. Poodles just naturally make me smile. I hooked the leash on my dog (who is a poodle) and we jumped out of the van to meet them. Just as we did, an older couple with another toy poodle was walking by behind the van! I was really amazed because here we are in the middle of a big, very empty state park on a Monday afternoon and suddenly I am awakened from sleep and see three different people walking by the van at the exact same moment and they each have a poodle!

If you saw how it looked like a ghost town before I fell asleep you would think it was a "sign" too. And after the poodles went on their way and we got back in the van, the park looked like a ghost town again.... no one was in sight.

My little angel is around and he knows how to make me smile.

I cried when I watched the movie (mentioned above). Yes, my little Toffee had a paw in writing it, too.