Autumn Bliss...and a Precious Rose from the Past Comes to Life...

These sun~dappled days of Autumn are pure bliss to me...I love the rusty colors of mums that grace my front porch, along with a pretty Autumn wreath, pumpkins, Indian corn and gourds...

Our Nature walk each morning shows off Fall's beauty all along the way... as I stop to capture these golden strawflowers against a white picket fence...

Spring and Summer came and went so fast... I am not complaining though...as Autumn is truly my most favorite time of year... I have shown the photo below so many times before on my blog, starting with one of my first posts I did when I began my blog, called "A Haunting Passion", you can read here... about an old, abandoned building that draws me to it, time and time again...the building is old and in disrepair... yet the beautiful roses flourish, as though someone from another time who has passed on watches over them and tends to them..

I have been trying to check into buying the old, abandoned little place... I feel a closeness to it that I simply cannot explain... this summer, when the beautiful red roses were blooming profusely, clamboring up the side of the building, and overflowing across the old wooden fence, I snipped these starts in the photo below and took them home with me... I displayed them for several days in my old blue fruitjar and daydreamed about who had planted them so very many years ago... and who somehow still tends to them... perhaps looking down at me and seeing how much I too love them... and the little abandoned place...

I placed the little starts in my garden, under old glass fruit jars, just like my mama did with the roses she started from my grandmother's garden so very long ago... the fruit jars soon became little greenhouses... as I peered through the mist each day... wishing so badly that my little starts would take root and grow... perhaps the same dear soul who tends to the roses in the little garden that once belonged to her... (and perhaps still does)... is watching over me now too... as my little rose starts have now taken root... each morning now, there appear to be more leaves than the day before... I am so excited!... they are thriving now, with no need for the fruit jars over them any more... come winter, I shall put straw over them to protect them from the harsh winter weather we get here in Centerville...

But for now, I will daydream about how next Spring they will clambor up my house too... and perhaps one day cascade over a little fence or trellis of my own... like the photo I took below... my dear friend Jo~Anne Coletti painted a beautiful picture from this photo for me of my precious roses... she has asked me if she can show my photo below in her new magazine that is coming out this month... I am so excited about these two things... my little roses beginning a new life, and my dear friend Jo~Anne seeing her dream of a magazine of her own come true... I hope you will visit Jo~Anne at Vintage Rose Collection, where you can read more about her beautiful endeavor...designed by Jo~Anne to help women fulfill their dreams... it will be over 100 pages and full of beautiful photos, poems, and spiritual devotionals...

I also want to remind you all of my Barn Chicks party here at Idyllhours on Friday, October 8th... if you would like to sign up, please leave me a comment telling me so, or send me an email... the Barn Chick Parties that Karen at Brayton Homestead Interiors has done have been so much fun, and I am guest~hosting this one for her... I will be drawing a name from the comments left on that post only, for a copy of "The Best of Martha Stewart Halloween Handbook"... "Special Collector's Edition"... I hope you will visit all of the Barn Chicks that day as well...

Thank you for visiting me today...wishing you all a most blissful Autumn day too... xoxo