roses in a vase
Ray brought these two 'Compassion' roses in from the garden last evening. The rose bush climbs on the back wall of our house and the blooms have a distinctive peachey scent.
They make me think of our late** daughter, Clare, who called her silversmithing enterprise 'Rose Madder' because "the shades of light to deepest pink produced by the plant pigment of this name have always been favourite colours and I like that Rose Madder sounds a little like a burlesque persona."
Clare wrote these words in an article she produced about her jewellery-making for the first edition of 'Sachet Mixte Women', an Arts Journal published in 2014.
She ends her piece in the journal with words from Henry Miller: "Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
**I used to think this adjective rather quaint. I noted its use in novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Now it has become for me a useful word to explain what I do not want to be verbose in explanation.
some pieces by Clare: flic.kr/s/aHsmTQ6GZR
roses in a vase
Ray brought these two 'Compassion' roses in from the garden last evening. The rose bush climbs on the back wall of our house and the blooms have a distinctive peachey scent.
They make me think of our late** daughter, Clare, who called her silversmithing enterprise 'Rose Madder' because "the shades of light to deepest pink produced by the plant pigment of this name have always been favourite colours and I like that Rose Madder sounds a little like a burlesque persona."
Clare wrote these words in an article she produced about her jewellery-making for the first edition of 'Sachet Mixte Women', an Arts Journal published in 2014.
She ends her piece in the journal with words from Henry Miller: "Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
**I used to think this adjective rather quaint. I noted its use in novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Now it has become for me a useful word to explain what I do not want to be verbose in explanation.
some pieces by Clare: flic.kr/s/aHsmTQ6GZR