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• 1 Lindsay Lebresco (Graco) // Apr 15, 2008 at 10:12 am

  What a great idea! My parents just left their house after 32 years and they had a beautiful hydrangea that I loved. I didn’t take it- do you think the new owners would mind if I came and dug it up? Probably… I wish I read this before! I hope they are as beautiful for you as they always were and that they remind you of your childhood. I’m sure your parents appreciated the gesture as well…

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• 2 Rick Astley // Apr 15, 2008 at 10:29 am

  Wow, what a meaningful memento - really pretty picture too, nicely done!

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• 3 Kim // Apr 15, 2008 at 10:29 am

  PG.. this may be one of my favorite pictures taken by you.. Love it and the beautiful story they will tell each year.

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• 4 Beeps and Chirps // Apr 15, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  Great colors and shot!

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• 5 Xbox4NappyRash // Apr 15, 2008 at 12:55 pm

  magic colour

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• 6 Maureen // Apr 15, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  Beautiful shot, what a great thing to have. I too, have seedlings from my parent’s garden. Although mine will never look as good as theirs…

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• 7 jason // Apr 15, 2008 at 2:59 pm

  Magnificent shot. Very well done.

  My parents have a potted plant (I don’t know what kind) that has been in the family for more than 20 years. It started on the pool deck of my grandmother when she lived in Redondo Beach in California. It’s now on the patio of my parent’s waterfront townhouse in New Bern, NC.

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• 8 Big sister // Apr 15, 2008 at 3:00 pm

  I am very glad to see the peonies like their new home….did you get/take the hydrangea too? Too bad the “Patrick Tree” was way too big to move - that is what really should have ended up at your place.

  Explantory note for the “tens” of non-family readers: When PG was born a flowering tree (magnolia? cherry blossom? dogwood?) was planted in our front yard. It was always referred to as “The Patrick Tree” and grew up as big, tall, and beautiful as PG himself.

• 9 Joe // Apr 15, 2008 at 10:50 pm

  Very nice photo, you’re just a big softy aren’t you?

• 10 freehold // Apr 15, 2008 at 11:23 pm

  best. photo. yet.

• 11 Chuck // Apr 15, 2008 at 11:28 pm

  Hey PG. I’m with Kim. this may be my favorite of your photos thus far (and you’ve taken a lot of good ones). The colors and composition in this are magical.

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• 12 struglas // Apr 16, 2008 at 2:09 pm

  your perspective amazes me sometimes. really nice shot. did you alter the color at all?

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• 13 PG // Apr 16, 2008 at 2:16 pm

  Thanks all. Sometimes it’s the shots I don’t think are that amazing that get the biggest responses…

  just gave the saturation a slight kick. the untouched is here….
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bostonpat/2413691743/

  I like taking shots from way down low. I am 6′5″ and the low shots are a treat for me!

  The “Patrick Tree” is a dogwood.
  The hydrangea stayed. As it was the peony was removed from the old homestead after closing, so I guess technically I stole it from the new owners.

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