Just a Few Roses...

April showers

bring May flowers...

 

oh wait, it is May!

 

our weather seems to be running a few days behind...

 

wet, wet ,wet...

 

 

during a sun break

I wandered around the garden...

 

gathering a few Roses...

 

The bushes are covered in buds

just waiting to burst...

 

pure anticipation!

 

I tuck them into this small baking bowl

I picked up at a garage sale

over the weekend...

 

 

a big and fluffy

Nancy Reagan Rose...

 

Sweetness Rose,

a bit tattered from the rain,

but so worthy of enjoying...

 





 

a pair of David Austin's Wisley Rose buds...

 

perfectly pink...

 



since we were talking about Roses today

I thought I would share

my other new garage sale find..

 

these six silver spoons...

 



 

adorned with swoon worthy

swags of roses...

 

a steal for two dollars...

 

 

my new old bowl

which I bought for it's pretty pink coloring...

 

flaunts a couple roses of it's own...

 

 

A Bowl of Roses

IT was a bowl of roses:
There in the light they lay,
Languishing, glorying, glowing
Their life away.
And the soul of them rose like a presence,
Into me crept and grew,
And filled me with something—some one
O, was it you?   William Ernest Henley

Thanks for stopping by...

Whimsical Sweet Pea Dress Form...

 

When you have the time

just to play...

 

create something whimsical...

 

 

I imagine

if you have been around my blog for awhile

you have seen my wire dress form somewhere in the garden

or maybe even beside the Christmas tree wearing angel wings

several years ago...

 

well,

my fondest desire

has always been for Sweet Peas

to climb up it

and form a floral skirt...

 

this year

I am on the way to making that happen...

 



 

I created a twine trellis...

 



 

the bottoms of the twine

are held in place

by small metal wickets...

 

the kind you use for landscape fabric...

 

 

then come the little Sweet Pea starts...

 

they have a long way to climb...

 



 

I think it will be worth the wait,

I'll keep you updated...

 

Thanks for stopping by today...

May Began with Roses...

May began,

and greeted me with Roses...

 

 

the first handful of Gertrude Jekyll Roses

burst open this morning...

 



 

and the  

 floppy China Blush Roses too...

 

 

My month is off to a good start,

I hope yours is too...

 

 

Happy Weekend!