Good Morning!

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Blooming!

This is what was blooming in Musashi's Garden
this weekend before the rains came.

Gerbera Daisy -- such a fun flower.

The blooms didn't last very long.

The squirrels decided to see if they tasted good.

I found the petals, but not the tasty center!

Enchanted Evening Rose

and

Amaryllis

To those three I added the Louisiana Iris Black Gamecock.

The petals are like velvet.

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

A big thank you to the lovely Judith for hosting Mosaic Monday.

Double Delight

On this cloudy morning I'd like to show you 

Double Delight.

From bud:

 

 

to full bloom.

 

This is what she looks like today (before the rain) blooming in Musashi's Garden.

A Double Delight in color and her fragrance is heavenly .. just like a rose should. 

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Thank you to Karen for hosting Sun Lit Sunday and

to Mary for Mosaic Monday.

Hanging In There

I've been watching the Houston marathon on television this morning.

I fixed a cup of tea and looked out the door and saw this:

This little rose has been through high winds and freezing temperatures and still is

hanging in there ... just like the runners in the marathon.

Join us for a little Sun Lit Sunday.

Wishing you well and much joy!

Wild Blue Yonder

No, I'm not getting ready to fly off into the wild blue yonder!

In this case, Wild Blue Yonder is the name of a floribunda rose currently blooming

in Musashi's Garden -- even in this horrible heat!

Almost a purple color with a smattering of white.

It even smells good -- like a rose should.

I don't believe this rose bloomed at all last year.

I have it planted in a pot and moved it to a new spot. 

Guess Wild Blue likes the new location.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

~Buddha

Thank you to Mary for hosting Mosaic Monday.

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Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Old Country Rose

I've been out cutting roses from the garden.

It's so hot they don't last long outside.

Why not bring them inside and

enjoy a cup of tea in the lovely old-fashioned Old Country Rose by Royal Albert.
The tea is even rosey -- Rose Petal Tea by The Republic of Tea.

tea leaves

tea loves

loves tea

lives tea

leaves tea?

never.

~Uniek Swain

"A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose.

It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden

to be both red and roses."

~ Oscar Wilde

Thank you to our tea party hosts:

Tea Time Tuesday

A Return To Loveliness
Friends Sharing Tea
Teacup Tuesday

Tuesday Cup'a Tea

Share Your Cup Thursday

Wishing YOU well, much joy and a wonderful cup of tea!

Blooming!

Blooming in Musashi's Garden

Using one of Nancy's scripted textures.




Nancy, Thank you for hosting!



Wishing YOU well and much joy.

Sunlit Garden

Once again the mystery rose is blooming.

I call it the mystery rose because I don't know it's proper name.

It's a beauty.

Probably my favorite rose -- the wonderful peachy/apricot color.

"The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

~ W.B. Yeats

Thank you to the hosts of Sunlit Sunday and Mosaic Monday.

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

A Rose Tea Celebration

Today is a special day.
Sandi is celebrating the third birthday of her Tea Time Tuesday Party
with a special rose party.

I have shared both of these teacups and roses with you before,
but I thought they were perfect for Sandi's celebration.


The first is an Elizabethan Fine Bone china tea cup with a rose from the balcony garden.

This is a Paragon teacup with a rose from Musashi's Garden.

One of my favorite rose quotes:

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
Eleanor Roosevelt 

And, this quote for Sandi:

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Sandi, thank you for being our tea friend!

Thank you to our tea party hosts:

Tea Time Tuesday

A Return To Loveliness
Friends Sharing Tea
Teacup Tuesday

Tuesday Cup'a Tea

Tea Talk

Share Your Cup Thursday

Wishing you well, much joy and a fine cup of tea!

More Tea and Roses

I have paired another rose from my garden with a new teacup again this week.
I found this lovely Paragon teacup at The Guild Shop
(a cross between Antiques Roadshow and Grandma's attic). 

I love the red and yellow roses on this teacup on the inside and outside.

Unfortunately, none of my yellow roses were blooming.

The red rose had to save the day!

There is a gold edge around the saucer and the pedestal of the cup,

 gold around the rim of the cup and a little gold splash on the handle.

The saucer is lightly fluted as is the hourglass cup.

This teacup is a joy to hold in the hands ... with tea or without! 

***

I am preparing to lead a Food and Feasting tour at the museum for a university class.

I love doing these tours. 

 I've done so many of them that I try to come up with something a little different so that I am not bored.

This year I'm going to visit the India galleries.

The spices used in food and the three major tea growing areas --

Assam, Darjeeling and Nilgiri

and tie it all to objects in the collection.

Should keep me on my toes! 

A big thank you to our tea party hosts:
Tea Time Tuesday
Friends Sharing Tea
Tea Party Tuesday
Teacup Tuesday
A Return to Loveliness

Tuesday Cuppa Tea

Wishing you WELL and a wonderful cup of tea!

My World: Blooming In Musashi's Garden!

The roses are blooming in Musashi's Garden.

This is Irish Gold.

It was the first rose I tried growing in a pot and it seems to like its home.
It is a hybrid tea rose first hybridized in Northern Ireland in 1966 by a gentleman named Dickson.
It's original name was Grandpa Dickson.
I think I like the original name the best.
It makes me smile!

Enjoy!

Thank you to Mary at Mosaic Monday,

 the wonderful hosts at Our World,

and Sunlit Sunday.

Wishing you WELL and much JOY!

Blooming in Musashi's Garden!

According to the calendar it isn't Spring yet.

Tell that to my roses!

They have really enjoyed the rain and the cool one day and warm the next day weather!

This is the hybrid tea rose Double Delight.

From bud to full bloom.

At full bloom the flower is a good 5 inches across.

  "Lemon ice dipped in strawberry sauce" is one of the ways it has been described.

 It also has a wonderful scent.

Thank you to Mary for being our hostess for Mosaic Monday.

Wishing you WELL and a JOY filled week!

Blooming in Musashi's Garden!

It's been raining.

Yippee!

We are still in a drought, but at least Mother Earth is wet

and my garden is happy!

I zipped out into Musashi's Garden before the last rain.

I wanted to make sure I photographed Sun Flare before the rain

messed with the blooms!

Sun Flare is a floribunda rose, small and bushy.

Perfect in a container and it really likes Musashi's Garden.

Unfortunately, it has little or no scent and I like my roses to SMELL! 

My thanks to Mary for hosting Mosaic Monday.

Wishing YOU Well and a JOY filled week!

Roses In Musashi's Garden

Every day I watch as the earth cracks.

We are in an extreme drought.

I am surrounded by huge oak trees and I don't think

even if my neighbors water,

they can water enough to keep them alive.

In Musashi's Garden, my postage stamp backyard,

I get a break from the drought.

I have small citrus trees and one Japanese Maple.

It's the roses that bring me great pleasure.

I have four new roses this year.

Enchanted Evening is a lavender floribunda rose.

It is a little darker purple at the center with a silvery reverse.

They have a citrus like scent.

Double delight is a hybrid tea that may be very familiar to you.

It has been a big favorite of rose lovers for quite awhile.

It received high honors in 1977 by AARS.

Creamy white flowers brushed with deep red and a wonderful spicy fragrance.

The Bill Warriner rose is a cluster floribunda filled with salmon colored flowers.

It is named in honor of Jackson and Perkins' chief hybridizer,

Bill Warriner.

The fourth new rose is Sun Flare.

Sun Flare is a rose hybridized by the legendary William Warriner.

Disease resistant, hardy floribunda with non-fading yellow blooms

and an unusual licorice fragrance.

All of these roses are compact enough to be in containers that I can move

around the garden to get the best location to make them happy!

Thank you to our hostesses:

Mary for Mosaic Monday

and 

The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sunday.

Wishing YOU WELL and a JOY filled week.

My World

Be sure to visit My World to see more of our world or to participate yourself!

I thought I'd show you what was blooming in Musashi's Garden
(our backyard)
on Thanksgiving Day 2009.

The rose was in full bloom for our snow last Friday.

Isn't she beautiful?
She lives in our atrium.

The tangelo had 5 fruit to be picked on Thanksgiving Day.
We stood at the door and watched a squirrel take one off the tree
and take a bite out of it!
The little rascal.
We dashed out and picked the rest of the citrus.
We are kind to our squirrels,
but the little stinker took a bite and then threw it on the ground!
Delicious!