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New Dawn Rose, our garden
June 2006
When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long,
and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winterfar beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose
Bette Midler
June is here!
My favourite month of the year!
Tomorrow, 2nd is Jon's birthday and Sunday is our Wedding Anniversary. Later in the month, 29th is my birthday.
As my Dad loved roses it is nice to look around the garden and be reminded of his love of gardening. We have a few rose bushes scattered about. Two roses in particular are my favourites....one is a large yellow variety which I bought to plant for memories of mum and dad. When it flowers the perfume is wonderful and it is so reassuring to sit in the garden and smell the wonderful scent.
My other favourite rose is the New Dawn species which my good friend Carole bought me last year on my birthday...she bought it specifically for the name!
June is the month of the rose, so it would seem the right thing to do here today is to find some appropriate words.
A Rose
by Elizabeth
A lovely rose with petals soft
A scent so sweet and light
So beautiful a flower
With colors shining bright.
But something not so savory
About the fragrant rose -
The thorns, so sharp upon the stem,
That sharpen as it grows.
Yet still lovely is the flower
Despite the thorns that prick
Just as life and love are sweet
They too have thorns that stick.
But do not fear to live or love,
Life's not exempt from pain -
So pick a rose, you may get hurt,
But you will also gain!
14 comments:
The Rose poem is beautiful; will be printing this one out for my wall of "Reflections & Pondering"
You've an exciting weekend ahead...Have fun!
Rx
my dad loved roses too and spent many hours pampering them, when he was alive.
I now have my own rose garden - I have a royal rose garden where all the roses have names of royalty. It is amazing how hardy they are - mine are still blooming now - in winter!
Love the depth of field in your photograph and the Rose poem is just beautiful.
Thanks for sharing
Roses are my Dad's favourite flower too.
I love this Bette Midler song.
My Dad grew roses too, and very successfully. I can't do it for some reason, they always die.
MY hubby's b/day is on the 4th.
Is your Gemini as complicated as mine...LOL
Happy Birthday fro tomorrow Jon!!!!!
Have a GREAT week end
Take care
Gill
Mrs N your poetry choices are now posted on the Daisy Lupin Poetry Fest Site, and I found a great illustration for Silver. An Atkinson Grimshaw painting, you must recognise where the painting is of? Guess!!!!!
Beautiful rose.
An invitation from Mimi…….To: Saturday Photo Hunters
Many bloggers will be flying Peace Globes in the blogosphere on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. It is BlogBlast for Peace day - the second annual event. Please consider using your blog voice and creative influence on this day to participate. The theme for June 2 is ART - perfect for creativity with a peace globe perhaps? You can find more information about the movement at Mimi Writes or BlogBlast for Peace. I wanted to make you aware of the event. I really enjoy looking at your photographs on Saturdays. I hope you can participate.
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Thanks and peace!
Mimi
Is there a flower more lovely than a rose?I think not.Sadly,it's too humid in my part of the world for them to do well, but looking at beautiful photos helps.
They do say....no gain without pain! Very true in the case of roses...!
I hope that you have a great year for Roses this year. Ours have finished, and I pruned them all back last weekend. We had an ok year, but as we are in a drought, they did struggle a little. I would have loved to have given them a lot more feed and water to bring them on...
Here is some photo's of some Aussie Eucalyptus for you to enjoy...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/225/479716133_5598e50ff4_o.jpg
&
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/479715995_d851f4ad69_o.jpg
and a Heliconia...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/479700988_959efe8445_o.jpg
Cheers
Bernie
Lovely post MrsN!! I hope you and Jon have a great weekend :o) {{{HUGS}}} xx
Have a jolly fun weekend Mr&Mrs N.!
We'll raise a glass of The Fizzy Stuff to you! Just love Roses.
Best witches, Mr&Mrs.G Harvest.X.
Yeah i love the poem! and the vintage videos!
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