Todays Flowers

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:17 am

Roses are todays flowers. Met a nice rose grower. I should have taken notes when he named them all!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:19 am

He knows I'm posting the pictures but I didn't tell him where!
You can tell I Photoshopped this pic a bit.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:22 am

All his roses had a wonderful perfume! I don't know why people breed scent-less flowers.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:25 am

People actually stop and steal his blossoms- they are so attractive.
I Photoshopped this one a bit as well. I wanted them to look like old blossoms from yesteryear...

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:13 am

Oh Kat! They are beautiful!! I can almost smell their fragrance! I planted wild flowers in the rock garden yesterday, won't be long now! Well.....it will, but it's getting closer!

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:03 pm

Lovely. I had been trying this year to get a rose named for the Titanic lady who died last year, Miss Lillian Asplund, the last person with a memory of the ship sinking. I also wish we could get a rose named for Lizzie. I think it would be a big seller-maybe a white and red varigated (innocent AND guilty) so everyone could be right! The process takes awhile and you must petition the Rose Society after getting a cultivator to breed the specimen. Still, I would love to see it happen. A project for us.

Smudgeman · Post by **Smudgeman** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:01 pm

Shelley @ Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:03 pm wrote:Lovely. I had been trying this year to get a rose named for the Titanic lady who died last year, Miss Lillian Asplund, the last person with a memory of the ship sinking. I also wish we could get a rose named for Lizzie. I think it would be a big seller-maybe a white and red varigated (innocent AND guilty) so everyone could be right! The process takes awhile and you must petition the Rose Society after getting a cultivator to breed the specimen. Still, I would love to see it happen. A project for us.

That would be cool Shelley to have a rose named for Lizzie! Were there any rose bushes at 2nd street that you know of or at Maplecroft?

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:17 pm

Beautiful roses Kat !

Tracy...

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:09 am

Rebello, 32,33:
"The Boston Daily Globe (June 26, 1893), published the following account of a newspaper reporter's visit to the Borden home on Sunday morning two weeks after the trial. The reporter waited to see if Lizzie would attend church. It appeared from this account that the Borden house was painted a drab, olive-brown color. The trim was the same color but darker.
...Passing by the house, nothing was to be seen on the other side save the green, green grass in the yard and a beautiful rose bush, its flowers of red contrasting with the dismal color of the building against which they bloomed. Not a movement; not a sound!"

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:10 am

Thank you, you guys!

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:15 am

Wow, nice photos, Kat. The white ones are fantastic.

I thought I remember reading somewhere that the rose bush near the southwest corner of 92 Second was taken care of by Abbie. It is visible in the photo of the south yard.

Of course, Lizzie's rose should be a white rose as in ".... The bonnie White Rose it is withering an' all. But I'll water it with the blood of usurping tyranny ..."

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:08 am

Oh very good, Harry! LeeAnn planted a white rose last summer at the house, and I quoted that red rose newspaper description to her from the Globe. So this year maybe a red one will go in- still, I had not thought about that poor "White rose withering on the vine"-maybe when you are up here visiting we will go rose shopping and get another white rose for Emma! Then both the "girls" will be represented.

Then of course we need wisteria!

william · Post by **william** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:44 pm

Kat:

I'm constanly amazed by the quality of your photographs. Are you using a digital or 35 mm camera?

How about supplying all of us wannabees with the techinical details?

Bill

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:06 pm

Great pics, Kat, thanks for sharing! Oh, theres something so sad thinking about Abby tending one rose bush, just one. Most people that have roses tend to have a few plants or a rose garden. I wonder if she had to fight tooth and nail to have one plant that didn't produce anything that might be considered usual like a fruit or vegetable? Makes me wish I was close to Fall River, I'd buy a dozen red roses to leave on Abby's headstone.

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:00 pm

Sadly, it is usually Lizzie who gets the lion's share of flowers, notes and mementos. Seldom is there anything for Abby or Andrew. For years all the graves were done up for memorial day with red geraniums, blue ageratum and white petunias but that ceased some time ago. It was thought the Animal Rescue people might have done it. Most of the time highly inappropriate things are left on the graves, some frankly tacky and disrespectful. Those of us cemetery folks who visit often, usually take a trash bag and clippers to tidy up a couple times a month and weekly in the summer.

Constantine · Post by **Constantine** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:26 pm

maybe a white and red varigated (innocent AND guilty)

That reminds me of the story about the young woman shopping for a wedding gown. She is told that white is traditional for first marriages; lavender, for second. "In that case," she asks, "what do you have in white with lavender trim."

I agree that Abby is the one who should be getting flowers.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:34 pm

Thanks William!
Just an old digital Kodak, nothing fancy.
It has a close-up feature and I have to decide if the subject warrants it. These were all close-ups.
Once you have a closeup you can then change the image size to something smaller, or concentrate on a small area within a huge photo.

The cropping is what makes the composition tho. I do admit to having a good eye when cropping- to reach an optimum vision and highlight something unique.

A couple of years ago I honed my skills on Sherry's Fall River pics. There must have been 25 or 30 and I taught my eye with those. She was sweet to let me.

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:25 am

Awesome pics Kat. I have red and pink rose bushes here and the buds r just starting to poke their colorful heads out

I also agree that roses for Abby and Andrew's graves would be appropriate cause lest us not forget no matter what they were the victims of a murder.