Beauty in Unexpected Places

I looked out of our kitchen window into our backyard on Thanksgiving Day and saw this beautiful rose! Wow! Portland is known as The City of Roses. Apparently, the climate here is ideal for growing roses. We have 8 rose bushes in our backyard! It surprises me that they are still blooming in late November/early December! It will be interesting to experience our first winter in the Pacific Northwest!

This reminds me that, in life, we often find beauty in unexpected places! On our cross country drive when we moved here this fall, we found that to be true. Kansas takes a long time to get across, and is mainly boring scenery! However, even Kansas has a beauty all its own! The farmlands are beautiful. The scenic flinthills are unique. It reminds me that beauty is sometimes very easy to see and sometimes we have to look a bit harder to see it. This happens in people as well as places.

Think of a time in your life when you found unexpected beauty.