An opalescent light blue self with blue beard that blends to yellow in the throat. Has no pollen. Sometimes pods to half-bred pollen, but none of its offspring have been worthy of introduction. 

Ethel was my elderly grand-aunt who kept urging me to introduce this particular seedling. I really wanted to name it for her, but I had no worthy seedling to name for my other grandaunt, Opal. Fortunately, the flower is an unusual opalescent light blue self so "Opals" actually describes the color of the flower and the complete name served to honor both of my grandaunts. 

A quarterbred from Patricia Craig X Capitola. This is the only picture in the Gallery I didn't take myself. The late Cope Goodwin sent it to me when I'd given up working with quarterbreds, thus inspiring me to resume my experiments. So even though it has no registered decendants, in this way Opals for Ethel and Cope Goodwin were responsible for my newer line of quarterbreds.

For show aficionados, its ASI code is OGB-.