Here in North Texas, spring can sometimes stretch for a month and a half and sometimes it goes by in a couple of weeks. The lesson? Savor it while it is here!

A few weeks ago, our temps hit 90 degrees – in March! Today, it’s a gorgeous 60 out this morning after a spring thunderstorm.

Everywhere I go, I see roses, roses, roses and green, green, green trees and lush foliage. I am in heaven feeling these amazing creatures’ energies!

Not much more to share, but wanted to share some photos for all of you who still have snow on the ground. Spring is coming!

This long stem rose bush is a pure delight. I bought this beauty on the side of the road when we went to Tyler, Texas (Rose Capitol of the World). Stuck her in the ground and she has been blooming like crazy ever since. With help from Gene last year, we gave her a little haircut and she is blooming even more rapidly this year!

At the back of our yard, at the end of pool area (see our silver pool tarp), these pink and red roses have tripled in size from last year. Thank you again, Master Horticulurist, Gene Morrissey! I’ll share more photos of our wild teacup roses that are in full bloom despite the hail storm last night!

A few years ago, I felt compelled to plant roses in my yard. At the time, I experienced a deeply transformational experience with Mother Mary, Jesus and nature. Roses seemed to beckon and call from every corner of the Universe.

I’ve noticed in sessions that roses show up often with Mother Mary and Jesus. These beauties always remind of bittersweetness… the beauty of the rose combined with the thorns.

I’ve written about this divine connection and roses, and many people send their rose stories…these stories, in particular, highlight the beauty of awareness…of interacting with divine and of seeing the messages of love in everything.

Beverly, a dear friend and soul sister, emailed a couple of rose stories I wanted to share with you all!

Just so thought of you when I saw this (completely unplanned) reflection … it is too funny … Jesus does love his roses and so do you so I just had to share this picture of my last rose of summer … I hope life is  wonder-full for you in every moment … God bless, and remember to smell the roses … don’t you just love the way messages arrive? … xoxo Bev

Here’s another from Bev…

Must share another rose story about what I thought was  the last rose of summer till this one came along ) … It was beautiful too, and I brought it indoors thinking there was going to be frost and placed it beside the same picture of Jesus (see the photo below)… it was there for quite a few days and still looked beautiful … then I went out of town thinking it would be wilted when I returned … but … when I got back it was still amazing and stayed that way for a long time … wow… and … when it finally faded, and dried … at the very centre, a petal dried in the shape of a heart … such a gift …

Can you see the heart in the center of the rose below?

Beverly… thanks for sharing your heart and beautiful stories with us!

Belinda’s Dream – Our backyard… pre-treatment

I know, I know, I talk about roses A LOT! But I just can’t help it! I LOVE them!

What am I noticing these days? ROSES – they are *EXPLODING* in our backyard, they are FULL of the goodness of all that is divine, and I feel like this rose energy is within me, too.

On another post, I believe I shared about planting a ton of roses a couple of years ago. I began dreaming about them nearly every night for weeks. I found myself in front of roses in all sorts of ways. Oprah had a show about HER rose garden. I picked up a magazine, and there they were. I closed my eyes to meditate, and the roses would appear in my meditations. Some part of me was asking for the energy vibration of these beautiful creatures. I literally couldn’t ignore them.

We trekked to the Rose Capital of the world, which luckily for us, is only about an hour and a half away. After talking to the owner of Chamblees Nursery in Tyler, Texas, he fixed us up with a new breed of thornless rose called a Jefferson Rose (called that because he found this little gem underneath an Oak tree in Jefferson, Texas. These beauties grow EVERYWHERE – even under an oak tree in the shade). This bush type rose blooms from March through November with these luscious tiny tea cup white roses (yes, these are the ones I saw in my dreams).

We planted them along the fence that borders our pool area and, now, just two years later, they are HUGE! As we pulled into our yard last night and I saw them sparkling in the dark, I felt so happy, happy, happy. The energy of the rose is unmistakable … soft, gentle, yet powerful, rolling, healing.

We also have some other rose bushes – Belinda’s Dream (see photo above), which are pink roses with these luscious layers and layers of petals. They look like a fluffy rose, and then we have some ‘unknown’ varieties that we bought by the side of the road because we ‘loved’ the colors. Like, seriously, we were driving BY, and they REACHED OUT and said COME BACK…Chance saw the first one and I heard the next one… and the one I heard is now in the back of our fence, it has grown two feet by two feet, and the blooms are SIX INCHES WIDE on these gorgeous long-stem roses. What color? Of course, PINK, as I believe the only one who loves pink more than Elle Woods (Legally Blonde) is ME! They come out this HOT, SHOCKING PINK color and then, they turn light shell pink (see below)…it’s like getting TWO ROSES in one!

The Elle Woods Rose – I just named it that!

I hope you are loving something as much as I’m loving the gift of these beautiful roses! They sing to me, they speak to my soul, and they make life so, so, so sweet.

Happy Earth Day – Again!