Foxgloves are out in the side yard!
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Tag: spring
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My Golden Opportunity rose (my newest rose) is about to bloom! And it’s going to be gorgeous.
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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Another lovely challenge from XingfuMama:
- This challenge is simple: step back for a few minutes each week to find a lovely thing, a precious moment, anything you find lovely. Then post about it. You can just post a picture or you can go into detail and tell it as a reflection, story or poem.
Well, of course self would post a picture of flowers.
Fourth of July Rose, This Morning
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I allow myself ONE new rose a year. Last year’s, Moonlight Romantica, was a hit!
This year, I chose a Golden Opportunity rose. I bought it bare root, but couldn’t plant it until over a month after I’d bought it. By the time I planted it, half of it had snapped off from a storm. It looked pretty scrawny. But today, it has one huge bud. Can’t wait for it to bloom!
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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Her Frida Kahlo rose, which self bought from Cloverdale Nursery ages ago, is finally coming into its own. This year, it’s been blooming continuously since April.
The pictures she takes of her front yard roses are taken on the fly: her street is a very busy street, cars zoom by starting at 6 a.m. (and this despite a “traffic calming project” that’s taken two years to complete).
To take a picture of her front yard roses, she has to crouch in full view (She really should build a fence, have to save up for it). Hence, they’re never all that sharp. You take what you can get.
The blooms have the most delicate stripes, which you can only fully appreciate from the side (and aren’t even all that apparent in this photo).
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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Usually, this rose is the only one blooming in my front yard. This year, because of the rainy spring, it has plenty of competition from the roses around it.
Nevertheless, it is performing like a champ.
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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Nothing can beat the red of a Fourth of July rose. It’s almost overwhelming, to look at that section of the garden (hidden behind a magnolia tree and thickets of overgrown holly).
For today’s One Word Sunday — RED — I picked the bloom with the deepest red and went in for the close-up.
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Posting for Silent Sunday:
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Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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This rose bloomed while I was in Mendocino. It must have been very hot: the edges of the bloom are crisped.
The pictures aren’t all that sharp. I decided to use my Nikon Coolpix. I’ll try again using my cell.
Posting for Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Kanlaon 