Old Fashioned Pink Rose

Possibly the last old fashioned pink climbing rose of this year was too beautiful to leave out in the wind and rain, especially after I realised how much it resembled a rose engraving featured in "Treasury of Garden Writing" a favourite book from the Royal Horticultural Society.
The Senior Partner offered to photograph the rose and book together so, I created a pretty vignette on a table in the dining room.
Since getting the new ipad a few months ago the SP has been learning several new photography techniques, he also took the photograph that I'm using as my new blog header image using the ipad.

He used something called PhotoToaster for the altered image above.

Roses by George Eliot.

You love the roses - so do I. I wish

The sky would rain down roses, as they rain

From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?

Then all the valley would be pink and white

And soft to tread on. They would fall as light

As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be

Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!

Joining Beverly @ How Sweet The Sound for Pink Saturday.

Click on the link for lot's more pink.

Pink Saturday in October!

Although it's officially Autumn and the Virginia creeper on the house is beginning to change colour from green to burgundy, there are still plenty of roses in my garden.

So, I'm sending you all a little piece of pink, from Normandy, to celebrate the first day of October!

Joining Beverly @ How Sweet The Sound and her wonderful Pink Saturday party

click on the link to see more beautiful pinkness from around the globe.

A Rose by any other name...........

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Juliet's speech from Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Linking this post to two of my favourite Monday Meme's:
Mary's Pondside Mosaic Monday @ thelittleredhouse and Tracey's Weekly Words to Live By @ Notes from A Cottage Industry where you'll find some excellent quotes to make you ponder on the way life is.

It's the weekend..................

All week I have been discovering wonderful blogs created by very talented women.

You will already have seen my blogs on Blue Monday and Outdoor Wednesday but what about a pink Saturday?

Over 150 people have posted on Beverly's Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound and they have inspired my post today. http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/


This is a particular favourite of mine.

http://hyacinthforthesoul.blogspot.com/2009/08/pink-hydrangea-saturday.html

I have some great photographs to include in my YMBD week 11 LO which I will be working on tomorrow now that football season has started in the UK and I become a grass widow once again!

Have a great weekend everyone.