Rose Red, 1999, at night. "What color today, Miss Ellen?" Sukeena asked from my dressing room. "Red," I said back to her, naming the color of the flower. "Rose Red," I repeated more strongly. It has a familiar ring to it, though I can't recall from where. And then a realization: my husband and I had just named our grand house." After their first evening in the house, John left a red rose on the pillow next to Ellen, the thorns neatly removed with a penknife.

	Rose Red, 1999, gargoyle.	Rose Red, 1999, tower with stained glass window.	Portrait of Ellen Rimbauer, believed to be painted by Justin Dutton in 1908, now in the Winslow Library of Letters and Memoirs, Seattle.
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