painting by Joe Max Emminger
Today my friend Julie Little left a big beautiful bucket of roses on our doorstep. Swoon. I emptied the bucket and filled vase after vase. Now the house is overflowing with roses.
I will share this year’s bucket with you. Here are red roses on a red mola.
Yellow roses in a yellow jug on a yellow tablecloth.
White and pink roses on a piece of Russian embroidery.
Purple roses on orange Mexican oilcloth.
Pink and red roses with a stuffed animal from Peru
Roses outside – on a bench painted by Joe Max Emminger.
Roses inside – on stripes, in light and shadow.
This post is light on fabric and heavy on flowers. It’s summer: time to smell the roses and savor life.
Ice Cream by Julie Paschkis
Julie Little has given me roses for several years. In 2014 I wrote a post about the roses that she left. I wrote more about fabric in that post: here is a link. I didn’t include her name then, but I am now because I want to thank her out loud for her buckets of generosity.
painting by Joe Max Emminger
Mooshka 
Good Morning MS. Paschkis, We have been sort of feeling out of the picture , like a good story that develops out of a gift such as the one you wrote about many colored roses in a vase, sort of a Matisse painting of flowers in a vase. Or perhaps Vincent Van Gogh’s flowers.
The only flowers this year to survive the hot sun and many rainy days in a row were the Bushel Gourd gold orange flowers. Now I give you a gift that is the many large gourds growing like heads of people decked in fine leafy greenery, and their old friends bees of every size inside the large gourd flowers, a film in itself. One bee will not chase another bee out of the stems of the gourd flowers, just buzzes away.
Best Wishes from Mrs. Arthur L Keith
That is a vivid picture. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing, Julie. Are you on Instagram?
I am on FB and Instagram but can go weeks without remembering to log into them. Then I’ll be on for a while until I forget again. My friends all swear by Instagram – and it is inspiring to see what they are up to.
both post just added a lovely tone to the dry hot summer of Phx. Thanks so much! Cathy Bonnell
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Glad you enjoyed it – keep cool!
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