Yes this post’s title is toying with the name of the famous John Singer Sargent painting “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose,” which KerryCan told me she liked.
The roses in New Shoreham are so abundant this year, I couldn’t stop taking pictures. I admire these roses because they do their own thing. They need no attention from humans. If they feel like climbing up a tree or entwining themselves with acres of poison ivy, they will just do it.
I’m also posting a water-lily pond where I saw a rough-hewn guy in a beat-up car place a rescued turtle. Other photos include a typical New Shoreham dirt road, Suzanne’s daughter’s monkey enjoying a rare respite, a deer, and Stuga40’s breakfast idea (flax seeds and pumpkin kernels on cereal).
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The roses are lovely ,the first photo is beautiful! Nice capture of the deer.
Reaching for a deer picture, I had to blow it up until it was all grainy. I just wasn’t close enough. Reminds me of the 1960s mystery movie “Blow-up.”
I got the Sargent reference right away! Such fun–and such amazing roses. I always think of roses as high maintenance but these clearly are not. And I have a million photos of tiny deer off in the distance, too!
It’s funny how we are always excited to see a deer even though we know the role they have played in pretty much everyone in the family having had Lyme Disease at some point. So in theory we wish there were no deer on the island.