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Monday, May 30, 2016

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Link: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/05/friendship-rose.html

Today I'm sharing a blog I first wrote in March 2014.

FRIENDSHIP

Relationship between two people
     affection
        sympathy
           empathy
              honesty
                 compassion
                    understanding
                       fun
                          trust
                             faith
                                love
                                   caring

"But friendship is the breathing rose,

with sweets in every fold."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(1809-1894)

American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author.

There is a time when mothers and daughters become friends.

If we try to be friends when our girls are too young, they lose a mother.

Then who will be their mother?

Being a mom is often a thank-less job, but not always.

My daughter, Faith, gave me red carnations for Valentine's Day. They bloomed for 19 days.

This week, Faith gifted me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers that she hand picked from the florist: red, yellow, ivory and lavender roses and a red carnation.

I arranged each flower carefully in two of my favorite blue-and-white vases. I gently touched the precious petals, and drank in their fragrance. I brushed my hand across the rosemary in the pot next to the roses. It's scent lingered on my hands. For one brief moment I forgot about the snow covered ground outside my kitchen window.

"Why beautiful flowers again?" I asked my daughter.

"I just wanted to thank you for taking me to divisional championship swim meets, Mom," said Faith.

Going to swim practice and swim meets is something we always do. It's nothing out of the ordinary.

What's extraordinary is a young woman who brings gifts (purchased with her hard-earned money) to her mom, and to countless others. Only God knows each act of kindness Faith bestows on others. One day He will reward her openly for her acts done in secret.

I'm proud to share that Faith earned medals in every event she swam at division championships. She trains hard every day at swim practice.

I'm even more proud, in a godly way, of the way Faith lives her life in service to others.

Thanks
for
stopping
by!

Come
back
often,
and
invite
a friend!

Mary Marcia

Mother to Kristin, Benjamin, Sarah & Faith

Grandmother to Joshua, Megan, Emily & Caleb

America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Link: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/05/friendship-rose.html

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/

"But friendship is the breathing rose,

with sweets in every fold."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(1809-1894)

American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author.

This week, Faith gifted me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers that she hand picked from the florist: red, yellow, ivory and lavender roses and a red carnation.

"Why beautiful flowers again?" I asked my daughter.

"I just wanted to thank you for taking me to divisional championship swim meets, Mom," said Faith.

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and invite a friend!

Marcia Norwood
Mother to Kristin, Benjamin, Sarah & Faith
Grandmother to Joshua, Megan, Emily & Caleb
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Saturday, September 28, 2013

R O S E S

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Rose Harvest at Norwood Gardens

Knock-out roses begin blooming in spring, and continue blooming until the snowfalls here in Missouri. I cut roses (Knock-out, Hybrid tea, and Climbers) from April until as late as December.

Armed with
scissors,
garden shears
and
garden gloves -
I cut rose
blossoms and
hips, (the fruit of the rose),
and collect them in baskets.

Roses dry in baskets, and on open weave fabric/cloths on the counter.

"God gave us memory
so that we might have roses in December."

James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)

Scottish Dramatist and Novelist best known as the creator of Peter Pan

"It will never rain roses:

when we want to have more roses

we must plant more trees."

George Eliot (1819-1880)

English Victorian Novelist,Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans

"Truth and roses have thorns about them."

Henry David Thoreau

"Marriage is like life.

It is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is nothing more difficult

for a truly creative painter

than to paint a rose,

because before he can do so

he has first to forget all the roses

that were ever painted."

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Artist regarded as the most important French Painter of the 20th century.

Yellow roses were used to convey happiness,

light,

friendship and

new beginnings

in ancient times.

Although In 18th century Europe, the message of a yellow rose changed to something a little darker.

By the 20th century the most accepted message moved back to something joyful.

Mixing yellow roses with other colors carries significance:

CLICK on the link below or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser:

http://www.ehow.com/about_6618897_meaning-yellow-rose_.html

CLICK on each photograph to enlarge.

The rose is a flower of love.

The world has acclaimed it for centuries.

Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant.

White roses are for love dead or forsaken,
But the red roses,

Ah - the red roses are for love triumphant.
A yellow rose means true friendship.

Give her two roses

(one red and one yellow)
each with a note.

The first note (with red rose) says:
"For the woman I love."

The second (with yellow rose):
"For my best friend."

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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Monday, May 30, 2016

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

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FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Saturday, September 28, 2013

R O S E S

AMERICA'S STORYTELLER, Marcia Norwood