sparkle power!!

The lovely Candace from Sparkle Power is holding a giveway with five different prizes and winners! And I'm so delighted that she wanted to include my Green Filigree cotton tea towel as one of the prizes. Here's a taste of the other beautiful objects you can win from My Fine Garden and Michelle Swafford Pottery. Go and enter now, don't walk, Run :-)
p.s. I must go away more often, I always seem to hit the front page when I do (widget on right) I love the sentiment of the card bottom left!

away

My mum's birthday today. Really wet again here but at lunch time a break in the rain meant my (lovely) friend Clancy and I got to walk up the drive to the letter box without getting wet.


Later this little friend visited. I looked her up, she's an emerald dove. In another light that wing is pure emerald green but I like this shot with all the lovely brown and russet hues. I set her free outside and was a bit surprised when she walked away!

more roses

Did I mention I love roses? Here's some more gratuitous rose photos. My favourite, grown from a cutting from mother in law's garden. She doesn't know its name but I think its a David Austin. A difficult colour to capture, more a plummy red.
I'm away for the week so this is my first attempt at leaving a post to publish while I'm away. Fingers crossed.