One thing in life calls for another; there is a fitness in events and places. The sight of a pleasant arbour puts it in our minds to sit there. One place suggests work, another idleness, a third early rising and long rambles in the dew.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
At the entrance to our garden, there is a rose arbour. It is particularly beautiful in the summertime when a variety of roses are out and we can enjoy walking under this canopy of roses to get to our door. When we sit on our front porch, we are also graced by this view.
These images were taken in the summer and as I pass the arbour now, there are a few buds trying to come into bloom but they will not make it as their blooming time has passed. As it’s oft been said, there’s a time for everything. It’s nice that I have these photographs to remind me of the “days of wine and roses” – the glorious summertime.
To be a true collage, it is necessary to have more than one image. This collage is a kind of puzzle as you have to try to find where I put some extra roses on the arbour. It was also fun for me as it involved some creative expression. We can’t all be “professional” artists but we can aspire to artistic expression. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out but hope you enjoy it anyways. There’s an interesting quote below on not being sure in life. Hope you enjoy this collage and watch out for the butterflies!
| “Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” Agnes de Mile
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