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I got myself out of the house yesterday for a little stroll among the flowers. I continue to improve and I continue to feel less than wonderful. Whatever, it’s progress. I was up after 8 this morning and thought, well, I’m not feeling quite ready so I’ll lie back down for a few minutes. San Geraldo popped in around 8:45. We chatted. I woke up again near 11. I guess that’s what’s needed.
The parks across the street are filled with rose gardens. I was grateful yesterday to be able to see them close up. I didn’t walk the entire length of the Paseo but I did see quite a bit and I’ll have close-up photos to share. After that walk, I went to the pharmacy (because, of course) and then came home and sat for an hour.
After lunch, I’ll be giving myself a not so gentle nudge to get out of the house again, and for longer. But first I’ll have to do some grooming. I haven’t shaved or trimmed since Tuesday. What a mess. And I know laundry awaits. This is just too much excitement.
Ayer salí de casa a dar un pequeño paseo entre las flores. Sigo mejorando y sigo sin sentirme del todo bien. En fin, es un progreso. Me levanté después de las 8 de la mañana y pensé: bueno, no me siento del todo lista, así que me volveré a acostar un rato. San Geraldo pasó a saludar sobre las 8:45. Charlamos un rato. Me desperté de nuevo cerca de las 11. Supongo que es lo que necesito.
Los parques de enfrente están llenos de rosales. Ayer agradecí poder verlos de cerca. No recorrí todo el Paseo, pero vi bastante y tendré fotos de cerca para compartir. Después de ese paseo, fui a la farmacia (porque, claro) y luego volví a casa y me senté durante una hora.
Después de almorzar, me daré un empujón no tan suave para salir de casa otra vez, y durante más tiempo. Pero primero tendré que arreglarme un poco. No me he afeitado ni recortado el pelo desde el martes. ¡Qué desastre! Y sé que me espera la colada. ¡Qué emoción!
• Cuando nuestro sobrino nieto tenía 8 años, su padre les sirvió a él y a sus hermanas ensalada de una bolsa de ensalada preparada del supermercado. No era la que solían comer. Mordió las hojas, las escupió en su plato y gritó: «¡Estoy comiendo cardos!»
• El estanque se está consolidando y necesita algunos cuidados especiales.
• Iris acuático.
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What wonderful roses.
David:
And they’re all over the city, too.
June is the month for roses here in Alberta. I’m looking forward to walking around the rose garden in a nearby botanical garden then. Roses and their thorns, such a perfect metaphor for life.
Debra:
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses”
I don’t know who actually first said it, but it stuck with me.
I’m glad you’re doing better bit by bit. The flowers are wonderful, so early to my Northern eyes. We still have daffodils and early spring blossoms. Boud
Boud:
I’m glad you at least all those beautiful early spring blossoms.
Such loveliness, yourself included! 😘
wickedhamster:
Oh, yeah, I’m lovely!
The roses are so pretty. Did they smell sweetly as you walked past? So many now have had the scent hybridized out of them.
ellen abbott:
Some of the roses are more fragrant than others, but yes they can be so sweet.
Mmmm…the roses.
And that water lily knocks me out.
One of the roses blooming here now is feral. I swear. This year I have not touched it and the vines (canes?) are growing up into the magnolia tree so that it looks as if the magnolia has small pink blooms. The area around that rose is weed-choked because I haven’t gotten around to that either. The rose doesn’t seem to care at all. And its flowers smell exactly like roses are supposed to smell. It is wild. And obviously free.
I’m glad you can get out and about a bit. I’d tell you not to push it but you know your body.
Ms. Moon (Who wishes she was wild and free.)
Ms. Moon:
I just read about your roses. Astounding. But those damned invasive plants! Much improved today. Yesterday was not great.
“I’m eating thistle!” — Ha!
Thanks for treating us to beauty, despite your not feeling up to par.
Judy C:
I’m glad I was able to get out and enjoy the beauty the other day. It amazes me that the thistle eater is 22 years old now.
Oh my! Those roses go on and on and on…..beautiful indeed!
And who doesn’t LOVE iris’!!
Soon you will be back to feeling yourself once again……those rest periods are important for healing, I have been told again and again by a certain man I know/Ron.
Jim:
Roses are planted all over the city. It’s amazing.
Glorious pictures to start the week with!!!! I can practically smell the flowers. Adored the water garden!!!! I love water lillies! I would have a water garden in a minute, it’s not like I don’t have the space but it is just so much work. I’m glad you’re getting sleep.. your body will sleep because it knows how much rest it needs. I’m also sure seeing all those pretty flowers made you feel better.?
Mistress Maddie:
I love the water garden, but I still wonder if it’s at all practical in a public park like this one. It requires a lot of attention (in desperate need right now). Yes, seeing all those flowers is great medicine.
‘Everything’s coming up roses’.
It will on Thursday as we’re back in Torrie at the Riu, following its renovation, for a week.
Karen:
How wonderful. It looks like you should enjoy some beautiful weather.
Roses are just about the most perfect of flowers, and as tough as old boots (evidently, as they seem to thrive in the hot, arid Spanish climate, right next to the main road). Like Ellen, I do hope they are scented varieties – we’re waiting with bated breath for our “Gertrude Jekyll” rose to open (it’s usually in bloom in May, but the buds are fattening), as it has a good scent (when I can actually smell it, which is only occasionally – it’s peculiar the scents I can and cannot detect).
Are those water-lilies variegated, I wonder, or is that speckling just the result of “Sahara rain”, with all the dust it carries? Jx
Jon:
Those water lilies are covered with muck. I don’t know if they want the water garden to settle or if they’re just late with clean-up. It’s not very appealing right now. We haven’t had the muddy rain.
Things are certainly looking rosy in your part of the world!
Steve:
Life is a bed of…
Look at all those beautiful roses!! I took lots of thistle photos this morning.
Kelly:
Thistle can be so beautiful.
I’m always amazed that water lilies can thrive and have such beautiful flowers in such algae-clogged, scummy ponds! Like growing a rose in a bucket of manure, LOL!
Tundra Bunny:
And right now this pond is completely scummy. I hope to see it being maintained soon.
That’s some close-up that rose is getting!
Kirk:
Overly proud.
You’re in full spring already!
Love the water garden. I want one real bad.
XOXO
Sixpence:
I love water gardens.