Category: Roses

Roses

Diafol in the Duo

Timothy Price35 Comments

I was working on Welsh in DuoLino while waiting for Loki to come in last night when at the end of one lesson I had earned 666 XP for the day. The odds of earning 666 XP on any given day are pretty low given 15 is the normal score for a lesson with a combo bonus of 5 for no mistakes. 10 is the lowest score for a lesson with no bonus (you have to make a lot of mistakes to end up with 10), and 25 is the highest score for a perfect score on a lesson after accepting a double your XP challenge.

As some of you might know, 666 is one of my favorite numbers after I was called the Antichrist in a public meeting when I was on the local Planning and Zoning board a long, long time ago. You can check out 666 on Route 66 and Sixty-Six, 666, More 6’s if you want to see earlier posts with 666.

Diafol is one of 28 words in Welsh that can be used to mean Devil. It is a bit of a Devilish language with all the Ws, Ys, double consonants, different ways of writing out numbers e.g., “Un deg pump” is “Fifteen” along with eight variations of “pymtheg“. Welsh sometimes has many words for one word in English e.g., “Os gwelwch yn dda” is “Please”, and sometimes one word will cover a phrase in English e.g., “Llu” means “a large number of people”; however, “Llu” is usually appended to “Hedd” which means “Peace” to make “Heddlu” which means “Police”. Welsh is extremely irregular and spelling Welsh is next to impossible. But it’s all a fun way of exercising my mind while learning my ancestral language. And it was especially fun to get a “You’ve earned 666 XP today!”

Honey Perfume

Lilies, Daisy, Black-Eyed Susan, Rio Samba

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I don’t know what type of lilies these are. I’m pretty sure we got them as a collection from Brecks, but that was years ago, and Brecks doesn’t offer anything that looks like these lilies on their website.

Ladybug on a daisy.

This lily is part of the collection, the same type of lily in a different color.

Black-Eyed Susan with a wasp.

Rio Samba

7th Annual Corrales Rose Society Dr. Huey Tour: Lockdown Edition

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Laurie under the Dr. Huey arch with her phone Facetiming with Susan.

2020 brings us the lockdown edition of the annual Corrales Rose Society Dr. Huey tour. For our 7th annual tour, we Facetimed with Susan while we walked around our garden admiring our ever-growing collection of Dr. Hueys.

The Dr. Huey arch
The giant Dr. Huey. Marina's Incognito Pear Tree on the right.

Dr. Huey on the southeast side of the property with giant 
Dr. Huey in the background.
Another view of giant Dr Huey.
This Dr. Hueys roses make a star shape.
The backside of the Dr. Huey arch.

Note on editor: I used the basic editor found in my Admin section under Posts. It’s a very basic editor, which I like, and the default adds a link to the photos so you can view them larger, a feature the current editor striped out. I can’t easily do mosaics from this editor, but that’s no big deal. I like basic and simple.

Beauties and the Trees

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Resa posted Art Gowns ~ Femme Finale at https://wp.me/p3qQOA-2qQ yesterday. She has used her tree, Holly’s tree, and Marina’s tree in her Princess Blue Holly (PDH) series set in Paris, France. PBH battles Evilomlap to save the Art Gown models from his dastardly evil plans. Resa’s drawings are delightful, and her stories lots of fun. Her Art Gowns are fabulous works of art. The celebrates Resa, Princess Blue Holly, and all the Art Gown models, I’ve posted an aerial photograph that shows where all the trees all the women bloggers have claimed are on our property and the surrounding area. I also included the location of the tree that both owlets are in. Big Baby Owl flew over last night and the two owlets where so happy to be reunited after being apart for almost two weeks.

Trees

The mosaic below shows all the trees that are in the above aerial image. Mouse over the photos of the trees to match them to the aerial map:

1) Resa’s Tree
2) Holly’s Tangle Heart Tree
3) Marina’s Incognito Pear Tree behind Dr Huey
4) Dale’s Peach Tree & Nancy’s Nectarine to the right.
5) Owlets hugging after getting back together in the bosque.
6, 7, 8) Right to left: Lavinia’s, Susan’s and Teagan’s Trees
6, 7, 8) Left to right: Lavinia’s, Susan’s and Teagan’s Trees
9) Gabriela’s Tree
10) Tiffany’s Tree
11) Robin’s Tree
12) Lyn’s Tree
13) Gloria’s Tree
14) Mia’s Tree

 

Below are a series of roses from our garden. I did not identify the roses.