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Last Green Thumb of the Year

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It’s New Years Eve, Happy New Year Everyone!

I thought I’d end the year on a high note but showing you one of my favorite photos. This is not the best floral photograph that I’ve ever taken but, it’s a very long way from the worst. I love the way the White Oriental Lilies pop out from their leafy green background and how their being placed diagnally across the photo frame gives them more interest than if they’d been in a row or a cluster.

On a bit of a sad note – It’s more than a little bit ironic that I’m posting a photo of lilies today. My mother died two and a half years ago, and today would have been her birthday. Yep, she was a New Years Eve baby. The world partied every year on her birthday. I don’t think she hated lilies but she wouldn’t grow them, and when my father died she didn’t want any, in any of the flowers that people sent to the funeral home. Lilies had always reminded her of death. Probably because they are such a predominant flower in funeral arrangements. That’s why it’s ironic that I’m posting a lily photo today.

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One of my favorite roses

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There’s a good chance that I’ve posted this photo up here before. I’m not sure, but either way it’s a lovely rose photo and it’s one of my favorite roses.

The rose is called Breath of life and it’s a climbing rose. I have this rose growing on an arbour just at the entrance to my backyard from the driveway. I feel that the name of the rose is suiting for both the rose itself and for my garden, because I feel that my garden is a Breath of Life when you enter it, so how very fitting to have a rose by that name greeting visitors right from their start into my garden?

Wishing you all the best over this holiday season!

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My Parade of roses

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This is a photo of one small section of my garden. I took it a few years ago. The roses are called Parade – specifically Parade Climbing rose, and then there’s the brilliant blue delphinium beside the roses. Doesn’t that blue almost look fake in this photo? Just to the right of the delphinium is a plant called Maltese Cross with orangish Red tiny blooms on top of tall stalks.

Fellow Green Thumbers? I’ve been thinking about it, and I was thinking that perhaps we should skip the next two Sundays? Next Sunday is Christmas Eve, and the following Sunday is New Years Eve. Yes I do realize that it’s also Hanukkah between December 15th and December 23rd as well, so perhaps some of you aren’t even playing today.

I think that many of us might be busy during this time period, and that it might be best to begin our regular Green Thumb Sunday postings again on the first Sunday of this coming January?

I’ve also noticed that many of the Green Thumb Sunday members haven’t been participating as much in the last month or so. Perhaps it’s just the holidays and life being busy, but if you are dropping out please let me know. I also realize that I haven’t been the best at getting around to all of the sites lately either and I’m sorry about that. I haven’t been well and I’ve had a lot on my plate lately too.

So, my message right now is that if you don’t want to participate because of the holidays over the next two Sundays – that’s fine. If you do, then by all means make a Green Thumb Sunday post. I’ll try to keep an eye out to see if anyone posted and I’ll try to come visit.

Otherwise I hope to visit all of you after this Sunday, in the New Year.

Happy Holidays – Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Years!

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