Posts Tagged ‘roses’
Plus it had a delicious scent
Posted: October 1, 2022 in Cee's Photo Challenges, flowers, Six-Word SaturdayTags: flowers, FOTD, Nature, roses, Six-Word Saturday, South Bay Botanic Garden
Friday flowers…rosy and in the pink
Posted: September 9, 2022 in flowers, Friday flowersTags: flowers, Friday flowers, Hermosa Beach California, roses
There are lots of flowers in this part of California and I see quite a few on my morning walks. Here’s one beauty that caught my attention.

The joy of flowers
Posted: May 2, 2022 in flowersTags: California, flowers, joy, Nature, quotes about flowers, rose, roses
While in California, we really did do more than just spend time with our new grandson and his parents and I did take photos that weren’t of him…although it was perhaps 50-50 on the photos. We always take walks and as everything seems to grow in southern California, I must have photos of flowers and plants to go with family and doors even though it makes my walks very much stop and go! The start of a new week seems like a good time to enjoy some flowering beauties and quotes to go with them and the first is still one of my favorite flower quotes, even though often used.
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oscar may or may not be right about the flower, but its blossoming certainly brings us joy.
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
― Oscar Wilde

“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”
― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”
― Luther Burbank
Friday flowers: love is a rose
Posted: October 15, 2021 in Cee's Photo Challenges, flowers, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, squaresTags: #PastSquares, Flower of the Day, flowers, FOTD, Life in Colour, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: orange, Manhattan Beach, orange roses, roses, squares, SquareUp challenge
If Linda Ronstadt is right and “Love is a Rose”, walking along Manhattan Beach provides plenty opportunities to be loved! This rose has just enough orange for this month’s Life in Colour challenge.

Friday flowers…“What a lovely thing a rose is!”
Posted: February 12, 2021 in Cee's Photo Challenges, flowersTags: Descanso Gardens, Flower of the Day, flowers, FOTD, FOTD challenge, Friday flowers, Life in Colour Photo Challenge 2021, Life in Colour: yellow, quotes, roses, yellow roses
Pre-Thanksgiving at Descanso Gardens wasn’t as verdant as spring or summer, but the rose garden was, if not in full bloom, at least in blooming health. There was a choice of colors but today’s color is yellow, just for Jude and the flower is for Cee’s FOTD.
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Thanks to Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty for the quote in the title.
French Friday flowers
Posted: October 18, 2019 in flowersTags: brown knapweed, Centaurea jacea, flowers, French flowers, Friday flowers, German camomile, roses
Despite the severe lack of moisture, there were still flowers in our part of France. Centaurea jacea or brown (where’s the brown???) knapweed (not a very attractive name) looks like a Dr. Seuss flower to me. 🙂

Friday flowers…color
Posted: February 8, 2019 in flowersTags: Baja California, color, flowers, Friday flowers, roses
Friday flowers…velvety
Posted: June 15, 2018 in flowersTags: Baja California, flowers, Friday flowers, Los Gaviotas, Mexico, red roses, roses