Pretty in Pink - September Pre-Fall Rose Edition

Signs of upcoming Fall - the Pink Promise rose starts cranking out lovely blooms again.   I always await with anticipation when I see a bud form, for depending upon the weather conditions, you'll never know what you will get.

Friday Flowers - Island Style

Follow your nose along the Oleander Trail in back of Moody Mansion in Galveston, Texas!  So many different kinds of oleanders, such a wonderful fragrance, and a delightful place to sit and sketch in the little arbor with the bubbling background of fountains.  A hidden treasure just beckoning you to discover the beauty of Galveston's official flower.

Can you believe no Instagram filter was used?!

Double pink blooms

What a color combination!

"Mrs. Pearl Knox"

Lavender Blue

Fragrant fresh-cut Lavender from Trader Joe's 

- $3.49 for this huge bunch!

Friday Flowers Following Freeze

Despite two nights of hard freezes for the Houston area, the Penny Red Blotch pansy survived!

Poinsettia Update - January 2014

I love how the stems turn bright red, too.

Here is this year's edition, I found it at Trader Joe's for $5.99.  .  .

Love is all around us

...even as a mystery flower in a bouquet from Trader Joe's.  (I think it may be an amaryllis?)

Fall Friday Flowers

Fall Flowers from Trader Joe's

Their flowers last a long time.  This had a nice assortment of two roses, two Gerbera daisies, pom-pom daisies, celosia and a sprig of eucalyptus and greenery all for $5.99.

Friday Flowers - Saturday Moment of Zen Edition

Phalaenopsis Orchid - "Golden Treasure"

Watercolor Painting
Project-Worthy!

"Golden Treasure" Phalaenopsis orchids.  I was lucky and got a two-fer -- two stems!
Special half-off sale today only at Whole Foods.  Bonus:  They are in a beautifully glazed pottery container, too!

Friday Flower

Unretouched pink Gerbera daisy from the new Fiesta Market Place bouquet taken with my iPhone.

Love Stock

Just going through my camera roll and found this from the May 31 Friday Flowers Stock petals.

"Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars that on earth's firmament do shine."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friday Moon-Flowers!

First moonflower of the season!

Pretty leaf trellis from Lowe's

Fruit From Flowers

What's left of the heirloom tomatoes basket from the Richmond Farmer's Market!

Friday Flowers - Take Stock

Smells like Snickerdoodles!

Friday Flowers - Walking Across Texas

Alas, this Walking Iris snuck-bloomed the other day, so it's on the downhill - but aren't the colors still gorgeous?

(Neomarica gracilis)

Friday (Wild) Flowers

Wine Cup Mallows and Wild Purple Prairie Verbena wildflowers outside Wimberley, Texas - April 2013

No complaints here

"Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses."
~German proverb

Another beautiful bloom from my "Pink Promise" rose

Stock Photo

I love stock (also called Mathiola)...and these pink ones are so pretty and fragrant!

Happiness and contentment!

Friday Flowers

Friday Flowers - Birthday Edition

A beautiful surprise from my beautiful daughter!