Peace is one of the headings in the photo challenge that I am in and I had decided to take the easy way out and photograph a house plant – how difficult could that be. Let me tell you….. First the plant was a Peace Lily or Peace Plant – right on topic. Well it […]
I finally found my red rose. It was hiding in the back of the garden, so I am sending it to you. I know that you would probably want it on a Monday when things can be a little down. I always feel that you can get through anything on a Friday, unless of course
I mean no disrespect. I know that cemeteries have a lot of souls in them; but I was walking over to a cemetery that is close to me, to take pictures of their lovely rose gardens, only to find that they had cut back all the rose canes to the requisite 6″ – needless to say there
When was the last time you paid $565.00 for a snowdrop bulb? Well, apparently, this is the price that an e-bay auction fetched for Galanthus plicatus – a very special (and expensive) cultivar of the more common Galanthus nivalis, which is pictured here. Follow the link for the whole story. Actually I wrote several blogs
Amaryllis Jan 22, 2011 It’s Saturday! I have my Lottery ticket and…….. 1. Luckily, I managed to find a birthday card (it only took 5 stores) that didn’t tell the 17-teen-year-old turning 18, to “go wild” or worse on his birthday. What ever happened to jokes about Acne – maybe that’s not funny to an
Roses picked from the garden Nov 28 These really are the last roses of summer. It’s either global warming or true love – take your pick! This picture was taken in Toronto Nov 28, 2010 and nothing in the garden looks as though it’s going to last another week, so I guess that this is
When we use the superlative have we reached the sublime? I think we may have here. This is a link to a site with a wonderful picture of Snowdrops and a lovely poem about Snowdrops. I think that the poet must have distilled the essence of “snowdrop-ness” and had it drip (by drops) into her
This has nothing to do with Spring allergies. I just thought that the picture of Snowdrops in the earlier post wasn’t up to “snuff.” It didn’t really capture the “essence” of Snowdrops – whatever that might be, so I took a few pictures of other more sheltered clumps around the garden and came up with
Sorry that’s the best I could do with Snowdrops – a Flowering of Forsythia was easier. Anyway we take our highs where we can get them and these are the first flowers up in the garden. Actually they were up about the second week in March; but it turned cold again, so I had to
There are things that those who live in the North do to make believe that Spring is just a snow drift away. We plant Spring flowers – indoors, of course. We plant paperwhites in January. We marvel at the speed at which their roots appear and their green shoots sprout. We inhale the smell of
