Tag Archives: roses

A Red Rose For You

Red Rose 1

Haiku 275

Start the week brightly

Magnificent creation

A red rose for you

Red Rose 2

This is the first rose to open in my garden this early summer.

However, it may be the only bloom that I get from this “rose bush”, because it is actually just one lone stalk!

Still, it is magnificent; large and beautifully scented.

One is enough.

I dedicate this rose to all my loyal readers. Thank you for your support, comments and likes. They are always most welcome, but especially over the last years of Lockdown and isolation, which have been harsh here in South Africa.

Happy New Year 2021

Pink Rose

Haiku 238

Bye 2020

Here’s to a New Beginning

2021!

Well, what a year!

There’s not much I can say about this awful year.

Actually, there’s a lot! But I’ll save that for another time, as I like to keep my New Year’s greetings short and sweet.

It’s been a tough year for us all and I offer my condolences to those who have lost loved ones to Corona.

Thank you for your continued friendship here on WP.

And I hope that you all have a better year in 2021.

Cheers from Scifi.

Happy New Year!

What a Whopper!

Red Rose 1

Haiku 231

Can’t believe my eyes

Hiding in the flower bed

Oh What a Whopper!

Red Rose 2

The second photo with the ruler shows the rose is about 14 cm across.

However, the most wonderful thing about this giant rose, apart from its size, is the gorgeous scent, detected from far away.

Rose and Green Girls

Roses and Green Girls

Haiku 195

Outside trips curtailed?

Bring a little Nature in

Mini peace garden

I treated myself to a bunch of delicate pink roses on my last weekly foray outside to replenish food supplies.

These two had broken near the top of the stem. No problem; they fit perfectly in this tiny vase, on top of the piano, between my two Green Girls.

post script: As some of you may ask, the ceramic Green Girls came from Denmark; a gift from my mother-in-law.

Friday 13th

Roses

Haiku 171

Unlucky for some?

Must say I’ve always enjoyed

Friday the Thirteenth

Footnote – Answer to the quiz in my last post, The Dark Ages.

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do.”*

*Can you guess who said this and which book it is from?

It is, of course, said by Mr Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, during his first hapless marriage proposal.

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

Congratulations to the following:

Pam at Butterflysand had the correct answer. Well Done!

Special mention to PG and SWMBO, who guessed Jane Austen and deserve sunbeams anyway.

And A Curious Introvert, who resourcefully found the answer.

Thanks also to Mistermuse for his offer of a very long extension cord so I could plug into power in the next city!

Along with sunbeams I give you all these lovely roses.

What a Lovely Bunch!

Pink Roses

Haiku 166

Roses Pink Roses

Bursting all over the bush

Multitudinous

Floribunda – Many-flowering.

Does exactly what it says on the packet!

A Rose Garden

Rose Garden 1

Haiku 155

A burst of colour

Nestled before the mountains

Sweet scented roses

Rose Garden 2

It is a lovely time of year here in Cape Town. The roses in this rose garden are bursting into new life. Every other plant in the Cape is blooming away too, helped by some recent good rainfalls. Hooray!