The June full moon shines tonight, known as the Rose Moon. Not difficult to see why, when roses are blooming all around. I love them, especially climbers and scramblers. Here are four from my garden, taken in full bloom this week:
Pour toi: a sweet smelling scrambler with masses of miniature flowers.
New Dawn: a repeat-flowering climbing rose with, sadly, only a slight scent.
Cadfael: a peony-headed rose with huge flowers. It currently needs rescuing from wild grasses and nettles!
Shropshire Lad: a heavily scented climber that scrambles over an arch across my front path and greets me when I come home.
Aren’t they beautiful? To end, something I found in Christine’s Blossoming zine:
What God whispered to
the rose to make it
bloom so beautifully
God shouted to my
heart times
one hundred!
Rumi
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the roses are lovely and i will be looking for the rose moon tonight. i am most intrigued, however, by the technique surrounding your photos. what is your secret, my dear?
So beautiful, Tess. Please continue to share photos of your garden. Thank you also for sharing the poetry selection from Christine’s beautiful zine. (I have a copy of Blossomings, too.)
Last night I found a link about the June full moon and will send it to you in a separate comment.
Lucy, thank you. It’s something called a cookie cutter tool in Photoshop Elements, then a set of ‘cutters’ called crop shapes. I strongly suspect it’s the technique Kate Iredale uses with her images, but with a dark background layer.
Elaine, thank you also, looking forward to the link. I would love to share more photos of my garden. Trouble is it’s completely out of control with nettles at the moment. You’ve seen the good bits!! In time, once I’ve got myself a little disciple to do the weeding.
Oh beautiful. roses are going full blast here as well, and i enjoyed them on my walk today.
Here’s the link…sorry to be late with it.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/16jun_moonillusion.htm
Peace Tess, and everyone else too,
Thank you for this. My mother loves roses. I remember growing up in the East End of London, where our small garden would bloom into loveliness at this time of year. I especially enjoyed the fragrance on hot summer nights, with the Rose Moon all aglow!
Thank you also for posting this short poem of Mevlana Rumi (may God sanctify his soul). It is indeed beautiful. On another level, particularly in Turkish influenced literature, the rose is the symbol of Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Abdur Rahman
Oh Tess,
Your roses are beautiful!
I have several rose bushes but have no idea of their names. One was planted about 80 years ago by my grandfather. We moved it here when we had to sell my grandmother’s home and I’m so very glad to have it – thorns and all!
Peace to all – Barbara
Oh Tess, I just noticed now you said you needed a little “disciple”
to do your weeding. Now, wouldn’t that be wonderful!
Gorgeous photos Tess, makes me want to hop over to England and sit in the garden with you drinking tea (and bringing you my newest zine personally!)
Roses are my birth flower and so take a special place in my heart.
I was also intrigued by Abdur’s comment that the rose symbolizes Mohammed, as it has also been the symbol of Mary which I find an intriguing parallel.
The rose moon? How beautiful – I’ve never heard of that before.
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed these pics. Luvverly
Thank you all for these comments.
Elaine – thank you both for the interesting link and for pointing out my ‘disciple’ typo, which has given me a really good laugh. Yes indeed it would be wonderful!
Abdur and Abbey: what interesting parallels re the symbolisms for the rose.
Ironically after all this, the sky in my part of the UK was too cloudy to see any moon at all that night!
PS: Barbara, I love the idea of moving this precious rose to your home.