Glorious Roses!

The flowers appear on the earth,

The time of singing has come

Song of Solomon 2:12

What can I say?  The garden ~ the roses ~ simply glorious!  

I love the drift of roses framing the lupine!  

As well as the bunny in my mother's cauldron!  

Walking out onto the back patio is to walk into a space where the air is saturated in the scent of roses!  

From every angle, it just astounds!  So lovely!  What a gift this garden is!  

Just beautiful!  I can't get over it!  

In my wildest dreams, I never imagined it would be as beautiful as this!  Truly a lovely gift from God, who brought them all into bloom at the same time and mingled their lovely scents into the most perfect perfume!  

Awake, O north wind,

And come, O south wind!

Blow upon my garden,

Let its fragrance be wafted abroad.

Song of Solomon 4:16

The side garden continues to grow and look lovelier by the day as well!  

Those gloomy grey skies bring the moisture and temperatures that have brought everything into such a wondrous state this year!  And amazingly, the mosquitos, which were already miserable by this time last year, have been few and far between!  

I'm hoping for a sunny morning so that I can get out into the garden and paint!  Today, I had a warm up exercise with one of the lessons from my painting workshop.  I'm learning so much from Dreama Tolle Perry and her Dream Love Paint workshop!  It is a completely different style of painting than I have done before and it's helping me to lighten up, brighten up and loosen up!  All three of those are  goals which I hope to achieve in my painting this year!  Looking forward to seeing how these skills translate when painting my own work rather than that of someone else's.