Rose Tour

Hello everyone,

I took a break from weeding my garden to celebrate my birthday today.

Every year I attend the Rose Society's Annual Home and Rose Tour.
This year I had the pleasure to visit the home the day before the
event. The first sight I saw was this fabulous bike sitting on the
patio. What a delight it would be to have a bicycle with a basket full of flowers.

The patio surrounds the back of the house, and the oval pool

is set against a beautiful ivy covered wall. The hot tub is

enclosed and has a fountain flowing into the water. Blooming 

lavender borders the pathway to the hot tub.

I know this is a Rose Tour, but the home has so many features I don't want you to 

miss the fun around this home. Take a look at the grandkids playhouse.

Tree azalea trees line the front entrance.   

Red Roses line the fence to the garden.

One type of rose is planted in each section on the path to the raised garden area.

 The Beautiful garden decor is placed in different locations on the property.

Different berry bushes are leading to the potting shed.

The potting shed is equipped with heating and cooling. 

This potting shed is a gardener's dream.  

On the left side of the potting shed is raised planter boxes.

They are planted with tomatoes in the back along the wall.

Herbs, bell peppers, and artichokes 

As I left through the front gate the fence surrounding the house

was lined with the most beautiful and healthy "Mr. Lincoln" Roses. 

I hope you have enjoyed this lovely rose tour. 

Joyously,

Betty 

Linking to:

Rustic and Refined for Dishing It and Dishing It

Love of Home for Sunday at Home 

Normandy Life for Mosaic Monday

 The Dedicated House for Make it Pretty Monday 

Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home
Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday
Tuesday Cuppa at Antiques and Tea Cups

Friends Sharing Tea at Bernideen's Tea Time Blog 

The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse 

Our Home Away from Home for Tuesdays at our Home

A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday 

The Dedicated House for Before and After Wednesday

Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday 

Katherines Corner for Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop

Home and Garden Thursday at A Delightsome Life 

Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday
Thoughts of Home at Poofing the Pillows

The Essence of Home for  Show Your Style Thursday

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday and Everything Else 
 The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday

Ms. Toody Goo Shoes for Best of the Weekend

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday~Anything Goes

May Garden Journal

Hello everyone,

Wow!!! What a month. I didn't plan a blogging break, but

life happens.  The last post was at the end of April.

My garden was in full bloom.  The first week of May

I left on vacation with my daughter, sister, and niece.

I visited North and South Carolina for the first time.

I have a bucket list, and I checked off another adventure. 

My daughter, sister, and I visited the 

"Biltmore Estate"

Travel photos will be posted in the next couple of weeks.

But now back to the blooming garden.

Before I left on vacation, I took some photos

of our garden in the evening. 

Peony and Roses are a great favorite of gardeners. 

My roses only last a month and here is a sample of some of the beautiful blooms. 

Peonies, Red and Yellow roses with a praying angel.

"Sally Holmes" a white climber and a pink climbing miniature.

I love my Angels.

Candy Cane climber, White Eden, and Ingrid Bergman 

I had a fabulous vacation, but it is nice to be home.

I came home on Mother's Day, and the following week 

new carpeting was installed in our living room and 

master bedroom. That is a whole other story.  

Busy, busy, busy.

Thank you for visiting 

Joyously,

Betty 

Linking to

Rustic and Refined for Dishing It and Dishing It

Love of Home for Sunday at Home 

Normandy Life for Mosaic Monday

 The Dedicated House for Make it Pretty Monday 

Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home
Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday
Tuesday Cuppa at Antiques and Tea Cups

Friends Sharing Tea at Bernideen's Tea Time Blog 

The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse 

Our Home Away from Home for Tuesdays at our Home

A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday 

The Dedicated House for Before and After Wednesday

Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday 

Katherines Corner for Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop

Home and Garden Thursday at A Delightsome Life 

Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday
Thoughts of Home at Poofing the Pillows

The Essence of Home for  Show Your Style Thursday

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday and Everything Else 
 The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday

Ms. Toody Goo Shoes for Best of the Weekend

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday~Anything Goes

Lilac Spring Tea Time

Hello everyone,

We have had a rainy month in April. The garden is blooming, and my Lilac

bush gave me a bouquet of beautiful blossoms.  I am working on my 2018

calendar and I have chosen one of these photos for the month of April.

The cups are "Shelley."

Primrose Chintz
I found this adorable blue and yellow chintz teacup at a thrift store. 

I love to style my tea time photos
Begonia

This green Shelley teacup was a gift from a friend. She inherited the teacup from her father,
and when he passed away, I became the new owner.

A little flower vase was another thrift store find.

Fabulous stacked teacups ready to save to my Pinterest board.

Hope you enjoyed the Lilac Spring Tea Time.

Next week I hope to be in the garden and styling another
tea time with the beautiful roses blooming on the
bushes.
Thank you for visiting,
Joyously,
Betty
Linking to:

Rustic and Refined for Dishing It and Dishing It

Love of Home for Sunday at Home 

Normandy Life for Mosaic Monday

 The Dedicated House for Make it Pretty Monday 

Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home
Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday
Tuesday Cuppa at Antiques and Tea Cups

Friends Sharing Tea at Bernideen's Tea Time Blog 

The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse 

Our Home Away from Home for Tuesdays at our Home

A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday 

The Dedicated House for Before and After Wednesday

Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday 

Katherines Corner for Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop

Home and Garden Thursday at A Delightsome Life 

Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday
Thoughts of Home at Poofing the Pillows

The Essence of Home for  Show Your Style Thursday

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday and Everything Else 
 The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday

Ms. Toody Goo Shoes for Best of the Weekend

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday~Anything Goes

April Garden Journal

Hello everyone, 

Wow!!! It"s been awhile since I've posted on my blog.

The last time I posted was about two weeks ago.

I've been busy setting up for my two-day garage sale. 

It takes me a week to get ready for the sale.

I have just finished disposing of my mother's 

treasures.  She passed away in November 2012, and it

 took me four and a half years to process my grief 

I had dishes, nick knacks, linens and household items.

The weather has been rainy, and I need to get outside and

weed two more flower beds. I did walk outside yesterday

and took a few photos of my garden in April.

"Coral Bells"

"Pigs Squeak Plant"

This week I am busy playing with my husband at Car Show and Shines.

We have a 1937 modified Chevrolet, which we enter in a cruise ride

this Friday night. The good old days are here again.

We love to participate in vintage car shows.

"Indian Chief" Heirloom Iris

 We moved into this house in 1969, and I met a fellow growing

patent Iris, I gathered up a cardboard box of bulbs to

plant in the same place they grow today.

INDIAN CHIEF, 1929        

With velvety, wine-red falls and glowing standards of raspberry to bronze, this tall, striking, Jazz Age iris is one of the most colorful we grow. It’s exceptionally vigorous, too, thriving on neglect in old gardens everywhere and blooming even in part shade. By the good Dr. Wylie Ayres 

This is my new favorite plant. I have tried to grow Clematis forever.

I bought a plant last summer and was so surprised when I saw

the first bloom this spring. Every day another bloom opens up.

"White Eden Climber"

EDEN CLIMBER

Climbing Rose

Rounded, deeply cupped, full flowers of creamy white and suffused with pink most intensely at the edge of the rose.

Time for tea in the Rose Garden. (When it stops raining) with my angel.

I have pinned "April Garden Journal" on Pinterest.

Thank you for visiting.
Joyously,
Betty
Linking to:

Rustic and Refined for Dishing It and Dishing It

Love of Home for Sunday at Home 

Normandy Life for Mosaic Monday

 The Dedicated House for Make it Pretty Monday 

Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home
Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday
Tuesday Cuppa at Antiques and Tea Cups

Friends Sharing Tea at Bernideen's Tea Time Blog 

The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse 

Our Home Away from Home for Tuesdays at our Home

A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday 

The Dedicated House for Before and After Wednesday

Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday 

Katherines Corner for Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop

Home and Garden Thursday at A Delightsome Life 

Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday
Thoughts of Home at Poofing the Pillows

The Essence of Home for  Show Your Style Thursday

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday and Everything Else 
 The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday

Ms. Toody Goo Shoes for Best of the Weekend

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday~Anything Goes

Shout Out to SilverSneakers!

A Big Shout Out to SilverSneakers!

Hello everyone,

I want you to meet my new best friend.

This charming young woman is my 

instructor for the local SilverSneakers fitness program at

our local tennis and fitness club.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings.

I started my exercise program on February 1, 2017.

My body has lost so much mobility in the last

few years, I just had to do something about my

range of motion and stamina.  I can't say enough

about how great I feel since I have been working on

balance, flexibility, 

Have fun and move to the music through a variety of exercises 

designed to increase muscle strength, range of movement and 

activities for daily living. Hand-held weights, elastic tubing with handles

 and a SilverSneakers ball are offered for resistance. 

A chair is used for seated exercises and standing support.

SilverSneakers is a free fitness program for seniors 
that’s helping millions of boomers and beyond defy the odds,
 shatter stereotypes and answer every challenge with,
 “I can do this!” SilverSneakers includes unlimited access to
 every participating gym and fitness center in the network.
 That’s a gym membership at more than 13,000 locations with unrestricted
 access to EVERY location. Weights, treadmills, pools 
and other amenities are included. We also offer fitness classes for
 all abilities led by our certified instructors at gyms and at alternative locations.
 The gyms are yours. The amenities are yours. The classes are yours.
 Now go get ’em!

Staying in shape and feeling good are important at any age. 
That’s why most of Humana’s Medicare plans include
 the SilverSneakers Fitness program – at no extra cost*.
 So what are you waiting for? Sign up today 
and see how much fun exercise can be.

SilverSneakers is the best thing I have done
for myself in a very long time.

This post is not a sponsored by Humana or 
any other source.
I will be 76 in a couple of months and
I am also planning some traveling by
airplane and car and I need all
the strength in my legs I can muster.
Thank you for visiting 
Joyously, 
Betty 

Bouquets to Art overlooking San Francisco

Hello everyone,

I promised you a trip to the de Young museum. Well here is 

a small snippet of the Bouquets to Art 2017. HERE go to 

the bottom of the page to exhibition preview and see more of

this beautiful art. The object of the display is to replicate the

artwork with a living floral arrangement in the same colors and

design.

This a large wall hanging and has an interesting story.

Discarded bands from liquor bottles create this beautiful piece of art.

On the ninth floor of the de Young Museum is an observation 

 tower with a 360-degree view. You can see the Acadamy of Science

with the green grass mounds and garden on the roof top.

The two towers side by side of San Francisco University 

The de Young Museum with the observation tower.
We had a wonderful day visiting my
favorite city (Well almost. I have been to some pretty amazing cities)
in the world. 

website credit
Thank you for visiting today.
Come back real soon!
Joyously,
Betty

Rustic and Refined for Dishing It and Dishing It

Love of Home for Sunday at Home 

Normandy Life for Mosaic Monday

 The Dedicated House for Make it Pretty Monday 

Amaze Me Monday at Dwellings-The Heart of Your Home
Between Naps on the Porch for Met Monday
Tuesday Cuppa at Antiques and Tea Cups

Friends Sharing Tea at Bernideen's Tea Time Blog 

The Scoop at Cedar Hill Farmhouse 

Our Home Away from Home for Tuesdays at our Home

A Stroll Thru Life for Inspire Me Tuesday 

The Dedicated House for Before and After Wednesday

Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday 

Katherines Corner for Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop

Home and Garden Thursday at A Delightsome Life 

Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday
Thoughts of Home at Poofing the Pillows

The Essence of Home for  Show Your Style Thursday

French Country Cottage for Feathered Nest Friday

Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday and Everything Else 
 The Charm of Home for Home Sweet Home Friday

Ms. Toody Goo Shoes for Best of the Weekend

How Sweet the Sound for Pink Saturday~Anything Goes