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.

[Guinny]

Dear Angelbaby,

Like you do, I have always believed that cats have such abilities, they see some things that we can not. But I never experienced it with dogs and that is why I think what you tell about Coco's behavior is even more exceptional.

Not so long ago I got a book from my sister written by Rupert Sheldrake, not exactly scientists favorite nr 1, but still, he tells some extraordinary stories. This one was called "The sense of being stared at" and it talks about strange behaviour with mostly cats and dogs, like that they always know when their people are coming home even though there is no way they could know this up front (he tested this scientifically!) Reading this I recognized a lot of things and realized once again that perhaps some (or all) species of animals might have special ways to communicate information to others without us humans being aware of it. Humans easily think that they are so great for having a spoken language and animals do not. Well, I - as a long time dog and cat owner - think that is just a lot of *****. Everyone who is close to an animal day in day out will know that they have very subtle body language, that animals often seem to exactly convey a certain message although we do not fully understand how. And surely the special long term bond between petowners and their furbabies is proof of this as well.
I for one realized only after Guinny died how easy our communication was, compared to the total inability to do the same with our other dog. As if she talks Russian to me. So much of it is unconsiously, but it is there just the same.

There is so much more "between heaven and earth" and we could learn a great many things about such communication. I for one am a believer, although I am by nature a down to earth person. My Guinny was the living proof of that.