The Most Beautiful Roses I've Had...

Every year for the last ten years it seems that when the Peonies are blooming we have a storm that tears them up.
The house across the street from me has the most beautiful Peonies bed, and each year it gets wiped out.
For two years the house was empty, and during those years I would harvest a couple vases to make a fragrant arrangement. When the house was purchased a few years back I told my new neighbors about the plight of the Peonies, and that I had been harvesting them so that they would be appreciated for years. I asked if I could continue to save them from their springtime peril if they weren't going to be home, and they said yes.

So yesterday the wind as the winds are whipping and the rain is pelting I looked at my husband and said "I bet the Peonies are blooming".
Sure enough I look across the street and many of them were in full bloom, so as usual in the rain I made my way across the street to cut wet Peonies in the whipping rain.
This year my darling husband followed.
As I am cutting he is taking pictures of me, and singing the tune 'Singing in the Rain', except he changed the words to 'She's Stealing in the Rain Stealing Flowers in the Rain'. You gotta love a smart ass.
So after my bountiful harvest we made our way back home and as I approached my arbor entrance to my front walk Billy told me to turn around so he could get a picture of me with the Peonies under the arbor that has more Roses on it this year than it has ever had.
I am so glad he took the picture, because at midnight I get a call from my son who said his friend had just driven by our house and saw the arbor laying in the street!
Billy went out and tried to put it back up but the wind was blowing so hard, as he was putting it up it blew down the other way. He decided it would probably be better to wait to put it back up tomorrow when the storm is over. He gave it a valiant effort, but it may need a little more work than just re-setting it. Fortunately, the Rose bush didn't break but because the ground was sooo saturated that it just came up out of the ground in a clump.
Thank you for the Peonies D & B they are beautiful, the purple ones haven't started blooming yet, so hopefully you will get to enjoy those.