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. 🙂
Posts Tagged ‘roses’
French Friday flowers
Posted: October 18, 2019 in flowersTags: brown knapweed, Centaurea jacea, flowers, French flowers, Friday flowers, German camomile, roses
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Friday flowers…color
Posted: February 8, 2019 in flowersTags: Baja California, color, flowers, Friday flowers, roses
Just a much-needed bit of color for a winter day. We’ve been having a lot of grey skies but without the joy (to me) of some lovely snow to brighten things up. And yesterday we had high winds, too. But I know spring isn’t too far away and maybe we’ll get some more snow before then. 🙂
Friday flowers…velvety
Posted: June 15, 2018 in flowersTags: Baja California, flowers, Friday flowers, Los Gaviotas, Mexico, red roses, roses
Here’s another rose from Los Gaviotas, Baja California. Can’t you just feel the softness? May your Friday be this beautiful.
Friday flowers…pink
Posted: March 9, 2018 in flowersTags: flowers, France, Friday flowers, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, pink flowers, pink roses, roses
Friday Flowers…climbing roses
Posted: July 28, 2017 in flowersTags: climbing roses, flowers, France, Friday flowers, roses, Vosges
2017 was a good year for roses. Climbing roses were everywhere, some climbing two stories. They were gorgeous! This spray was somewhat smaller, but it was beautiful and in a place where we could stop so I could get a photo. 🙂
Friday Flowers…a rose by any other name
Posted: June 30, 2017 in flowersTags: Alphonse Karr, flowers, France, Friday flowers, Maud Hart Lovelace, quotes, roses, Saint-Exupéry, scent
These days, I’m not sure “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is true. Many of today’s hybrid roses have no scent at all, something that brings me much sadness. It’s true that they’re still beautiful, but appealing to only one sense is not nearly as wonderful as touching both sight and smell.
Although you can’t smell these French roses, (I haven’t figured out how to add smell to my posts, yet), I hope you enjoy the sight of them.
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
Friday flowers
Posted: May 26, 2017 in flowersTags: age gracefully, aging, flowers, Friday flowers, roses
Age gracefully.
Sorry if I didn’t get to your blog yesterday. Lots going on in these last days before I leave, including a big mulching job, errands, picking up (but not filling out yet) job applications for fall, etc., etc. Life just gets in the way sometimes. 🙂
Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Macro…heart of a rose
Posted: September 12, 2016 in Phoneography ChallengeTags: iPhoneography, macro photography, Nature, quotes about roses, roses, Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge, Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge: Macro
It’s Macro time at Sally’s. Today I offer you an intimate look into the center of a rain-decorated rose, a shot taken with my iPhone 5s, the perfect camera to carry in my favorite outdoor pants when on my way to another walk in the forests of the Voges in France.
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
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”
~ Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
