Flowers and a festival

[wongkk]

I'm ignoring the fact that we're already eating windfall apples and that I could see my breath when I cycled to work this morning:  here's a summer flower post (roses this week after rain - well, this is England) and a glimpse of the new arrival for the Gackt gallery (poster promoting the Joetsu Uesugi Kenshin festival in which Gackt is again

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[mirien]

To my shame, my poster is still in its tube while I faff as to where he's going to go. Think one of my noticeboards is going to have to go to make room so I can get him in opposite last year's Kenshin poster.

I love your Nemuri one and am kicking myself I didn't order one! As for the RRII one....well, I have to say I actually purred at all of them.

The roses are absolutely stunning, including the visitor (who is a very handsome chap!). There's something about water on delicate petals that never fails to awe me.

It really is heading towards autumn isn't it? I've been noticing the signs for a couple of weeks now, swallows twittering on phone lines, ready to leave and last night when I stuck my head out of the door to call the cats, the air had that smell which is so distinctive when the year is turning towards autumn. Ooops, I waxed slightly lyrical there, I just really like autumn!

[wongkk]

I couldn't keep my Kenshin in the tube - he was just fighting to get out!

I have the other nemuri kyoshiro poster and an old kenshin one and a couple of others in a glass cupboard behind my piano. I'll have to take a pic sometime. Happily my mum is also a Gackt groupie so she doesn't mind me sticking his face all over the place.

Yes, the hover-fly was a fine specimen. The water droplets are magical and I think it was the rain which gave these roses their special "fat" quality - they really do look to be of full substance.

Thanks for visiting!

[liathchan]

I'm a bit farther north of you - Edinburgh, no less, and I totally feel the change in season here already...the leaves on the beech tree in my garden are turning yellow toward the ends of the branches, and it was practically dark at 9pm last night ....so sad!

Love that poster! Also the roses are wonderful, especially the old fashioned cabbage-rose, my garden in N.Ireland has these in pink and yellow, and the perfume is astounding.

[wongkk]

Ah, I imagine that summer in Edinburgh is just that bit shorter. I've noticed the change in the length of shadows, the increase in spiders and the fading of green vegetation towards the de-saturation of autumn. It will soon be time to make sure I'm carrying bike lights.

The poster is glorious! I like having a warlord in the house :=)

I'm pleased that you like the roses, especially if you're missing your own garden. Like you, my summer has evaporated with the heat of work so I'm hanging on to the beauty of flowers in the garden as tokens of the growing season.

Thanks for taking a look here in all your busyness.

[karadin]

these are fantastic pictures, you should think of making a book!

[wongkk]

That is high praise, coming from you!

A book? No, I have not considered making a book. In fact, I fall down on publishing time after time: I've always been much better at the creative exercise (writing a poem or a song or painting a picture) than at getting it out there. It's not that I have qualms about people being interested but more the bald fact that both they and I have already moved on. I have the attention span of the above hover-fly!

Thank you for your encouraging comment about the photos.

[wongkk]

Hello! This year the roses have been exceptional - it is not often that the rose plants in my garden have so many or such large flowers. It is as though they are throwing a party!

Thanks for visiting here - hope the exam stress is over for you now.

[anna_kotika]

Flowers divinely beautiful <3

[wongkk]

- and Gackt divinely beautiful, so a perfect combination! But even more perfect would be to find Gackt sitting in my garden one day, also enjoying the roses ♥

I'm pleased that you like the pictures. I am usually lazy about posting "home" pictures on my journal (my energy goes more into communities) but, this time, I am frightened into showing LJ the images from my camera as the summer will last longer (on our screens!) if I do that!