Mostly Roses :-)

Hello Folks ~ It is Saturday morning in my part of the world. Today is the last day of work for me this week. Next week, I’ll only be working one day, next Saturday, so have a week off to putter around home.

This morning after I got the coffee going in our stainless steel percolator coffee pot on the stove, I filled up the bread machine pan with ingredients for a loaf of bread and that is now baking. It should be done around 9:30, about 1 1/2 hours from now. Pretty soon it will start smelling delicious in here.

Thursday morning I took some pictures when I realized Chrysler Imperial had two blooms. I had smelled a wonderful rose scent the day before and thought it was coming from all of the blooms of Cocktail, not even seeing the one opened Chrysler Imperial bloom. That scent is really an old rose scent, to me it’s what you think of when you see a rose and how it should smell.

Phyllis Bide

Louis Philippe or the Florida Cracker Rose

Smith’s Parish ~ a Bermuda rose

Maggie

Vincent Godsiff

Texas Sage

A sweet African violet my friend Nanci gave me. Her mother passed away recently and Nanci knows my love of flowers so brought this from her mother’s home in Vermont. I do hope I can keep it alive. It is in a north facing window. If any of you have good tips for growing these lovely indoor plants please let me know. I will greatly appreciate it.

That’s it for now. It’s time to get us some breakfast, then I need to gear up for work, getting my mind right. The past few days there has been someone there doing some work on pieces and she is what I call a psychic vampire, and it wears me out being around her. The past two nights I’ve gone to bed between 7:30-8 p.m. and slept like a log, waking up around 6. May I feel the peace and love of God surrounding me today, (something she doesn’t want to hear even the slightest suggestion about at all. I've known her for years and she's been in my prayers, it's all I can do). She is spoiled and seeks attention constantly. Fortunately for me, this has not been an every day occurrence for the past 13 years. I would have quit long ago.

May I see the good in this day, may I be nice and not nasty. May I keep my mouth shut when I might feel like saying things I shouldn’t.

Hope you all have a great weekend, with NO psychic vampires invading your space.

P.S. I just went in to the scullery and smelled the delicious aroma of bread baking and looked out the window and saw flowers and butterflies and felt God's love. That makes me feel better ready to face the day. I'm not perfect by any means and need God's grace each and every day, all day long.

Plum Cottage Blooms & Orange Cumin Bread

Good morning ~
Hope you all are safe from cyclones, snow storms, etc. and that you have a lovely day or evening wherever you are.

I think of friends in the middle of the states who are being blasted by the snowstorms, and friends in Australia who have been blasted by that bad cyclone. I do hope to hear news from different ones as they are able to get on line to let us know how things are going in their part of the world.

Today there is sunshine and some clouds, a bit of a breeze, a perfectly gorgeous day here in s.e. FL.

When I went outside this morning the scent of roses filled the air. What a lovely way to start the day. Plus azaleas are adding their sweet scent as is the scent of the blooms of Basket Plant (Callisia fragrans). Tomorrow I hope to get outside to garden a bit, as I may not be working, I'm working again today and will be working again Fri and Sat. This is the great time of year for working in the gardens here in s.e. Fl, or doing any outdoor projects.

The first two pictures are of a loaf of Orange-Cumin Bread which I'll give the recipe to later. This was a delicious bread, and the texture of it wonderful.



This is a bud of a White Powder Puff shrub that is about 2 years old. I grew this from seed and this is my first bud.

Here we have sweet Smith's Parrish again. Someone mentioned her delicate blush which always a joy to behold.

Red hibiscus bloom not unfurled.

Mm. Laurette Messimy in the next two pictures. One in sunlight the other shaded.


Here is my shed again with Louis Philippe. The scent this morning was so wonderful. Old Blush is creeping across from the other end plus there is a bougainvillea with the same color of blooms, in the mix.

This is LaMarne.

Dainty Bess ~ What a sweetie she is. Her scent is sort of spicy like cloves. I just love her purple eye.

After the petals have fallen off.

Bon Silene the next couple of pictures.



I read that we are going to have an early spring, so I can just imagine the joy all of you up north are feeling right now. Enjoy planning your gardens for this year, then getting out to work in them.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

A Chill, Music is Back, More Roses :-)

Good morning Folks. Yesterday was a lovely foggy morning, today it is a lovely chilly, (53 and with wind chill feels like it is 48), breezy morning with the sun shining in a big blue sky. Tonight it's 'supposed' to get down to 39 and feel like it's 27. Our cottage is cozily warm and we haven't put the heater on yet. The heat was from yesterday's high of 78 and feeling like it was 81. I'll be baking a coffee cake later and that will add more warmth.

I've had several mention that they miss my music, I've missed it too, so I've re-installed my play list of soothing music again. If any of you would rather not listen, there is a pause button and the playlist is where it can be found easily, near the top of the right hand side bar.

Since it is such a lovely day I grabbed my camera again and headed outside.

I want to say to those who ask questions of me about growing roses, I am an amateur growing roses on a shoe string. I occasionally give them a dose of water soluble plant food, sometimes I give them Epsom salts, and sometimes I give them a drink of that nasty smelling alfalfa tea. I water, I pray, and I also talk to them. I've really gotten into the 'old garden' variety as they are much hardier, have wonderful shapes and scents. I've done research online, read books, blogs, etc. I'm still learning.

I hope you enjoy viewing these pictures. I enjoyed taking them, then editing them with my music was so soothing. Remember to click on pictures for a larger view.

The first two pictures are of Ducher.

This is Louis Philippe or the Florida Cracker Rose.


The next few pics are of Mm. Laurette Messimy











Here are some happy morning glories.


Mom-of-millions blooms starting to open.


This is Bon Silene


Here we have what is turning into one of my very favorite roses,

Penelope.

More sweet Phyllis Bide.








Pink Pet or Caldwell's Pink


Smith's Parrish





St. Francis



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"He who works with his hands
is a laborer.

He who works with his hands and his head
is a craftsman.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart
is an artist."

St. Francis of Assisi

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL