When I go hiking in the coastal hills there are so many gorgeous wildflowers. It's a beautiful time of year. Only problem is the massive growth of poison oak. Anyhow, it's a good time to out smelling the flowers.
Posted by Bob In Pacifica at April 27, 2008 09:07 AMI know I have been a bit cranky and hypervigilant myself of late. As progressives and liberals, we sometimes forget that we have so much more in common than our current partisan differences might indicate.
BTW, your roses are BEAUTIFUL. Now if there was just a way to sample their fragrance via the 'net!!
Posted by tfitznc at April 27, 2008 09:16 AM
beautiful plants, paradox.
beautiful pictures.
thanks for putting them up for us to enjoy.
Posted by orionATL at April 27, 2008 09:59 AMBeautiful roses, p! What's your secret?
It's a beautiful spring here. Enough rain to really make it green and the new leaves on the trees are vibrant. Some of our wildflowers are up and we should have a very nice progression through the different flowers and their blooms.
You're lucky my big old kitty isn't at your place. He's never met a rose blossom he wouldn't eat or destroy the house to get to. He drives me nuts when he sees a rose and wants to eat it.
Posted by phidipides at April 27, 2008 10:24 AMGorgeous paradox...absolutely gorgeous....I can almost smell that orange colored one....mmmmmmmm. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by emal at April 27, 2008 02:45 PMParadox,thanks for bringing up roses at a point in which so many things seem to be smelling to high heaven. I needed that!
Love them all, but the lilac (or is it lavender?) rose is quite amazing.
Congrats to a superb green thumb-er and many thanks for your, always, wonderful insight.
PAZ
Posted by quídam at April 27, 2008 03:55 PMwait ! what's my grey KitterZKat doing on your sidewalk ?
these are beautiful, paradox, thanks for being you
Posted by Katherine Hunter at April 27, 2008 04:07 PM"Now if there was just a way to sample their fragrance via the 'net!!"
...Like my dad before me I have lost my sense of smell. He said he didn't miss it because most things smelled bad, anyway. I agree, especially this primary.
phiddy: "You're lucky my big old kitty isn't at your place." ...back at you. My 25 pounder is part Asian Leopard-cat and sprays numbchuks.
Anyone around here ever get the chance to smell Raymond Burr's (Perry Mason) award winning Orchids on his island?
OK, who's the gardener that left the burlap filled with grass in street?
Posted by Seven of Six at April 27, 2008 07:46 PMHey, Paradox, I am a rose freak also - I have a rose bed with about 35 bushes. Planted 6 or 7 new ones this year - some to replace ones that were not thriving, and others brand new. I sure hope they are all still alive when I get back from this wonderful month in the Middle East!
Bob in Pacifica: I took lots of photos of wildflowers here in Syria, almost all on the coast and in the coastal mountains, which is some of the most heavenly terrain anywhere. I wish there were a way I could post them here, but oh well. I will enjoy them, and you all can just imagine them.
Posted by Shirin at April 28, 2008 04:23 AMThank you for such a lovely collection of roses, paradox.
Posted by Mary at April 28, 2008 08:06 AMMy 25 pounder is part Asian Leopard-cat and sprays numbchuks.
Mines only about 22lbs. Got him early in the first Clinton term. Very sweet old cat whose been around long enough to have trained his peeps and the dog very well. Only had 1 little spraying problem that was taken care of with Feliway. That stuff works like a charm.
I wish there were a way I could post them here, but oh well.
Try flickr. I would love to see them.
Posted by phidipides at April 28, 2008 02:29 PMGood idea, phidipides. I actually have a flickr account. It will have to wait until I get back to the U.S., though, which will be much, much too soon!
Posted by Shirin at April 29, 2008 08:37 AM