roses

Summer Is for Roses

The peonies are nearly done and the roses are blooming like they mean it.

Summer afternoons are just perfect for curling up for a nap–after you’ve chomped on someone’s rosebushes.

My roses are mostly pink…

…but why miss an opportunity to share some lovely Robert Burns with you?

O my Luve is like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June;

O my Luve is like the melody

That’s sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;

I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve!

And fare thee weel awhile!

And I will come again, my luve,

Though it were ten thousand mile.