flowers.....

Flowers...

with their lovely faces...

who can resist?

Valentines Day is my favorite 

special day...

it is the day my sweetie and I had our very first date.

So 

I am spoiled on Vday with lots of roses..

4 dozen this year....

(yeah, I know....smiles.)

I placed them all around the house.

When I was looking for these images,

I stumbled across 

these lovelies from earlier in the year.

Sunflowers rival Roses for my attention...

always.

Hope you are given flowers by someone you love,

and if not, 

go out then, and buy them for yourselves!

I do....

smiles.

I never promised you a rose garden....

but,

today, I was blessed with a visit to one 

here in my town.

It is a major attraction in the spring,

but when September sneaks into town,

the place becomes relatively quiet,

and dominated by bussing bees

preparing for winter.....

It has been very hot here...

have I mentioned that?

today it got up to 92 degrees.

So the roses are 

"given it all she's got, Captain!"

Well, I know they aren't all roses...

but they were all lovely...

smiles

I simply cannot express....

how blessed I feel....

My sweetie

(and I mean sweet)

brought me roses

today

for no apparent reason.

Now,

 before you roll those eyes

and think....

Yeah, right.....

no apparent reason...

wonder what he is up to....

smirk..

I would think the same thing,

if

I was younger.....

less aware.....

naive...

or

stupid....

You see

me and my sweetie...

well,

we weren't born

yesterday...

in fact

we have driven

 around this block

many times before....

He has been

single....

married....

widowed...

married a bit more

and

divorced...

and 

then

he

was

found....

by

me.

That's it.

And

me...

well

let's just say

my story is not that different

from his.

We

have experienced

a lot of heartache...

caused a bit...

and

are healing.

together.

So you see

these roses

are not

to make up...

ward off anger...

soothe feelings....

or even

divert attention...

Nope,

they are from one old soul

to another.

smiles.