The past couple of weeks have been oppressively hot around here (hovering around 100 degrees F) which makes gardening a dangerous activity for me. Trust me... heat stroke is not pretty. So I've had to bide my time waiting for autumn's cool temps in my studio.I am missing the garden so much that I did up a 2009 calendar called "Roses, Roses, Roses". Just looking at the photographs makes me yearn to go out and "play in the dirt" as I affectionately call my manual labor in the garden.
It doesn't help that I also watched the Hallmark Hall of Fame version of The Secret Garden with Hubby today. That just made it worse.
There's hope though. My weather-bug Hubby says a cooling trend is on the way this week so it won't be long before my summer hiatus from sledgehammering and digging will finally end. I have to do this every year, so you'd think I'd be used to it by now. But it never seems to get any easier to take 3 months off from something I love so much the other 9 months of the year.
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Oh Cindy...your Rose-calendar is sooooo beautiful! Thanks for showing it...the photos are faboulus. Please send some heat to Sweden...it´s rainy and windy... almost autumn!
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Hey Cindy, was the time on your comment correct? Were you really up at 1 am? Girl, you need to rest, or is it way too hot out?
ReplyDeleteThat calender is lovely. I think that the cover shot is one of your best! Beautiful. I am looking forward to seeing more of your work. Hope the weather breaks for you soon.
Jen
That looks so pretty. I am so glad you have made this as I have admired your rose pics for so long. Now is there a twit proof place where I can look at all the goodies you are selling? Christmas is coming and all that. :-)
ReplyDeleteSeriously 3 months is about all I can spend in the garden! Life gets hectic before and after summer, so I keep it to the no-school summer months. But I have enjoyed it! Your roses are be-utiful! I only I was a calendar person...makes me feel like I ought to be organized...and I don't like to set myself up for failure.
ReplyDeleteJust want to say how seriously glad I am that I'm not in Sunny So CA anymore with the 6-months of summer. I love the fact that I have the normal 3 months here, and only a couple of weeks are TOO HOT! Love your beautiful photos, as usual!
ReplyDeleteHey Cindy; Love your Rose calender what beautiful roses. I love to get my hands in the dirt too, so when we have hot and humid days it is hard to go out and dig. I sure will miss it during the winter months.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week. hope it cools off for you soon.
Hugs;
Alaura
Cindy, it just cooled off a little for us around here. I have been blessed with perfect gardening weather. I hope your area cools off soon.
ReplyDeleteHave you considered emigration? ;-) You could move to the Netherlands and have Autumn for most of the year. Bear in mind though that all though we don't have temperatures of more than 100 F here, we do have rain, a lot of rain which also keeps you confined inside. And it rains during every season of the year here, sometimes for days on end.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous calender!
I forgot: I do understand and feel your frustration though and wish you lots of happy sledgehammering and digging soon! :-)
ReplyDeleteHang in there ~ the cooler weather is here!!
ReplyDeleteMichelle
Beautiful calendar, wow, and wow for the heat. Anna :)
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