I just cut down a number of long-stemmed roses from my garden. Also a peony and a few other random flowers. A few are blooming, but most are just budding and will bloom in water. I am taking them to work this week to sit in a vase on my desk. This bouquet would have cost who knows how much at a florists, maybe $30 – $50, but for me it’s free. yay.

I took pics of some of my roses yesterday, to preserve them after they’ve withered.

I am actually not a big fan of roses — that is to say the store-bought kind that come from South America and are completely covered in pesticides and always have the same super-tight fist of a flower. Garden roses are amazingly different. And I love that these aren’t doused in poison.