Roses, Relationships and Social Media

Stormy Weather, LCI with a Pollinator | Its All About Relationships

“I shall be telling this with a sigh  Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made all the difference”  Robert Frost                            Social Media is about engaging in relationships.   This is a case Continue Reading

Roses Celebrate National Pollinator Week

Kimberlina with a Bee 2013

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine   Bees make us happy. We need these tiny workers. The sound of bees going about the business of feeding the Continue Reading

Miss All American Beauty Rose For A Day Daddy

Once upon a time there was a rose garden in the far, north. It was located one mile from the beautiful north shore of Lake Michigan off of Beach Road along a little dead-end street.  My mother planted 30 or so roses and hedged the roses with peonies and a Continue Reading

A Rose Garden In Bloom

N. Elevated Rose Garden 2013

The beautiful spring came: and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs Every bloom cycle is special but there is something glorious about the first bloom of spring. The world is glorious and bursting with new birth. This year the Continue Reading

Love Planted A Rose

Floribunda Rose Garden in Bloom

“Love planted a rose and the world turned sweet “ Katherine Lee Bates June was declared National Rose Month by Ronald Reagan in 1986. Don Ballin, past president of the Northeastern Illinois Rose Society was the President of the American Rose Society at the time.  I was a member of Continue Reading