The Last Rose

The last rose is always the most perfectly formed, the most delicious one.

Hurray, three days off! My brain is spinning with what I should do with my extra day. ;)

The Dirt

It is time for me to leave work and go home. I picked up a book being reviewed off the free table, started reading and searching. 40 minutes later ... I have not headed for my car. Shame on me! My favorite home computer is in for repair. M got a new pc (I never thought I would have a pc in my house). I am hoping having his own computer to play games, search out graffiti, creating graffiti online will allow my computer a little more room FOR ME and my work, thousands of unnamed photos, etc.

This is a wonderful application -- Native Plants Database found via the writer Amy Stewart's blog - Dirt. And oh, her long list of garden links!

Make some Sushi Bug Bites or a Tomato via The Rodale Institute via The Gardener's Notebook.

One flower is enough by by Rob Ryan reminds me of this (you know I punched many, many leaves and they stayed like that all summer, even gave one to my friend with the word "love" with a bouquet, and she gave it back to me a year later, pressed!) via Paper Forest.

The International Plant Propagators' Society. I should enter this photo contest.



I love the Antique Rose Emporium and the Rose Rustlers, blogged about them a couple of years ago. The idea of rose rustling makes me happy.

Rustling Up Some Roses

I read about The Texas Rose Rustlers a while back. I thought it was such a charming idea, to save old roses from extinction. The Texas Rose Rustlers also have some lovely Rose Illustrations and the all important -- Rose Rustling Etiquette. Their purpose, finding and preserving old rose varieties found in cemeteries and communities. You can almost SMELL these old roses, thank you, justourpictures.com. I guess there is some 'rose rustling' going on in California too. Have a burning question about roses, maybe you can find the answer here. Do you think it would really be this easy to propagate roses, a cutting and a mason jar?

And some related links since I am on the subject of flowers and cemeteries, Herbs of the Bible, and Cemetery Plantings, rather interesting and some photos of an old cemetery in Pennsylvania. Enlightening and soothing -- walking among the long departed, old, moss-covered gravestones, reading the dates, and trying to imagine those buried there and the lives they led.