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One of the big tourist attractions in Portland is the International Rose Test Garden, a meticulously manicured garden with over 500 different rose varieties. It is cared for by the Portland Rose Society, a non-profit founded in 1889. Hanna and I went there on a rainy Monday morning in 2012, but I was soon so intoxicated by the smells and the beauty of the raindrops on the rose petals that I neither felt the chill nor heard Hanna’s careful suggestions of “mightn’t we go into town soon?”. My camera simply couldn’t get enough.
Photo: International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2012. Posted on Instagram December 23, 2020.
Katja Malmborg 