Don't you just love that special light, you sometimes get on a summers evening?
Although the weather here continues to be moody, we have had a couple of lovely evenings here this week with the most incredible light at dusk. Pretty hard to convey via photo, but I tried to capture the mood, and make the most of our climbing Bobbie James rose which is doing its best to steal the show!
The white border in front of the terrace is flowering well at the moment, and the climbing rose Félicité Perpétue at the gateway is blooming with its tiny, pink buds, and fragrant double rose heads.
And by the way, for those who ask, No! I don't force Gibson to lie down centre stage whenever I take a picture, it's all his idea! He sees the camera, and chooses a strategic spot to lie down facing me, it is really quite uncanny. The boy's a natural ...
I wish you all a happy start to your weekend, thank you for reading me this week.
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What a beautiful place to live .
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It all looks straight out of a dream, a twilight dream that is. How very 'pweety' the roses are, and Gibson is a natural! :-)
ReplyDeleteJust heavenly!
ReplyDeleteLove your home:)
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous gorgeous home and garden! How blessed you are, and how lucky are we that you share with us! How I would love s few hours with my camera in that lovely place!
ReplyDeleteOh, Sharon.....thank you, thank you, thank you...your posting was just what I needed this particular morning.
ReplyDeleteAs you know, Herve and I bought the 220 year old "Dream House" (a cliche, but appropriate here). Over the past week, I've been totally submerged in the riptide of closing down our two houses in Durham and watching the contents of both (plus ALL the stuff from the garden, patios, etcetera) come crashing up into this house. It's been, for at least four entire days and nights, like witnessing a massive tsunami of goods and chattel, not to mention plain-old junk from closets and pantries I hadn't organized in ten years.
Quite frankly (and at the risk of lowering the tone of your elegant blog)?....my real estate agent (a very smart, dauntingly practical 50-something woman)told me about a week ago "Just get READY for it....half of what you own will be out in the yard, and the other half will be piled up inside the house. And it's all going to suddenly look like shit and smell like dog pee."
She was right. I got up two hours ago (the first "real" morning in this old house, when I don't have to keep driving back and forth to supervise movers, etcetera), and I dispiritedly realized that I have no idea how to even START putting things in order. Your posting just made me stop and remember why I bought this house; among many other attractions, there's a neglected, ancient, large rose garden.....everywhere you poke around in the acre-sized back garden, there are plants and shrubs to be nursed back to health. All the elderly neighbors and the guidebooks say that this house was, for a hundred or so years until the 1990's (when it was turned into a facny bed&breakfast, "famous" for its gardens.
your posting just spurred me to spend half an hour outside in the gardens, reminding myself that I have years (one assumes) to unpack and organize inside the house. I just made a promise to myself that I'll do what I can do as/when I can do it.....and, when the task is seeming overwhelming, I can simply step out my back door and appreciate all these ancient roses. They just clamber everywhere here, growing up into trees, poking through fences.....it's quite lovely, in a distinctly haphazard, "grey gardens"state of horticultural deshabille.....
thanks again, and wish me luck. I'm going to need it....
sincerely
david terry
www.davidterryart.com
how beautiful!
ReplyDeleteJust gorgeous! You're home is so, so beautiful.
ReplyDelete~ Clare x
Your roses are pure heaven ... thank you for sharing. I followed @Brooke_CCM on Twitter over to your blog.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is beautiful and I also love roses but we have already faded!Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteEverything looks beautiful....have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteOh my Sharon..this is otherworldy beautiful! So gorgeous.....I can almost smell your climbing roses from here! Thanks for sharing, its all so breathtaking!
ReplyDeleteHow lovely! And I love how Gibson poses!!
ReplyDeleteI love those glorious roses!
ReplyDeleteBobbie James is stunning.
It all looks so lovely, your roses are fabulous. I can well believe that Gibson poses for photos - B Baggins does the same thing:)
ReplyDeleteYou're right Sharon.
ReplyDeleteThere's something magic, peaceful and calming in that light. I feel the same every evening.
If I am outdoor during that time of the day I feel the power of our Earth...I do not know if you understand what I mean...I feel so full and grateful.
Fra
Wandering your gardens at dusk and enjoying the beauty around you are memories you will never forget. It's moments like this that fill the heart.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy more beautiful moments in your garden this weekend.
Two of my favorite subjects, roses and light. While dusk and dawn are my favorite times of day, capturing that in photo's is difficult. Yours are lovely! Thanks for sharing your piece of the world.
ReplyDeleteJust Beautiful!I too have a BOBBY JAMES rose I so adore!I always take my photo with it every year!Mine is finished now...............LOVE GIBSON CENTER STAGE!He is like your signature!
ReplyDeleteI think your first picture could be on a calendar - I think it is so cozy .. and I can smell those sweet roses.
ReplyDeleteI love Gibson in the other picture..like my golden retriever who is always by my side, it's lovely to see that he is your good company
I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Lise-Lotte partygreen(dot)ca
I think you did a wonderful job conveying the light at dusk with your camera. Your garden is absolutely gorgeous. I'd love to have some of those roses sitting in a vase in my apartment. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful weekend! :)
Love the roses!! Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden!
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Beautiful! Just Beautiful. You did do a wonderful job with capturing the "mood" and now I want to live there. Happy Weekend...
ReplyDeleteThose are gorgeous climbers!
ReplyDeleteWhat a magical time Dusk is and your home captures it all so beautifully! Wishing you a lovely weekend, Xo, Ashley
ReplyDeleteMerci Sharon de nous montrer votre maison dans la lumière du soir. J'aime bien l'aspect foisonnant de la glycine... ça me rappelle un peu la maison de mon enfance... Bon week-end à tous !
ReplyDeleteCéline.
As always, appreciates the beautiful pictures of your flowers, garden and home. Dusk and early morning are my favorite time of the day. And my favorite picture, is of Gibson on the front lawn. Hope Quick is doing well on recovery mode...:)
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely weekend!
I love your pictures at dusk it looks so tranquil and Gidson is such a wonderful model.
ReplyDeleteSarah x
I love especially the 1st, 4th and 5th - really great shots! The light - just perfect.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Renate
Love all your roses. Enjoy your weekend. Smiles, Susie
ReplyDeleteBreathtaking Sharon... that soft rose glow over everything is so beautiful... enjoy the evening light... such pretty moments...xv
ReplyDeleteI think the climbing rose is my favorite, although everything looks great.
ReplyDeleteC'est une profusion de roses magnifiques!
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks even more beautiful than your photos show Sharon!!
ReplyDeleteAnne, back in Paris
Perfectly lovely! Love these photos of dusk....
ReplyDeleteUtterly lovely.
ReplyDeleteYou are living my dream life of horses, flowers, family and France.
Breath taking photos...
ReplyDeleteJust completely love your garden, your house ...everything reminds me of the summers at my parents country home and brings shivers of happy moments to my whole body(:
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing it! Enjoy it well (: hugs Z
Sooooo dreamy, Sharon. I just adore your home!! The gardens that embrace it full of soft color, the expanse of green grass, the vines clambering over the bricks.....Looks like something in heaven. :)
ReplyDeletexoxo laurie
Stunning.
ReplyDeleteEven your pootch is perfect!!
Roses...the only flower I have trouble growing. Yours are so lush. I'd like a climber like that.
ReplyDeleteI do hope your horse is doing better. Love the flowers, you must have the perfect climate and a very good "gardener". I am guessing you are the gardener. Any way the hardscape wonderful and the landscaping is divine.
ReplyDeleteEnchanting home and garden.
ReplyDeleteDear Sharon,
ReplyDeleteoh my,what a wonderful place....the light mood is so amazing!!!!
I love your paradise!!!!
I send my best wishes for you, Flori
...ah Sharon...sighing with delight..
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Just love this post mate, but the gorgeous David T's comment almost outdid your beautiful garden! It's 0C. here in Stirling tonight, the sight of your open French doors has me sobbing!
ReplyDeleteMillie xx
What a wonderful garden! You'd better watch out - Gibson will be demanding appearance fees shortly :)
ReplyDeleteSoooo divine, stunning. Sharon, you are a grand photographer + you have such great subjects. Roses are one of my favorites, as well as dusk. Have a wonderful weekend! xxpeggybraswelldesign.com
ReplyDeleteSharon you garden is stunning and at dusk..my favorite time of day with such amazing light.
ReplyDeleteXoxo
Karena
Art by Karena
Artist Series 2012
Stunning. Love the gate photo. The scent in your garden must be incredible at the moment with so many roses in bloom. I much prefer the effect lower light level have in photography as the sun does seem to bleach at lot of colour out.
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Stunning...almost a lavender light...
ReplyDeleteOh, these views are the views of my dreams!!
Gibson completes the gorgeous scene..
- Irina
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ReplyDeleteI just loved the entire courtyard of this house it really looks amazing and fascinating nothing less compared with a star hotel.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful, I can just about smell the roses and summer night air. Which is pretty good since I am in the depths of winter here in Melbourne!
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