What a wonderful Rosalia - thank you so much for taking pictures and telling stories, Carol. It sounds like you all had a splendid and wonderful time. I could almost hear the music playing - a string quartet or celtic? Will have to ask Pamela The Glorious who the musicians are. The garden is so beautiful, lush and wonderful, and it just makes the gray skies disappear far into the distance. And lucky you to have Missy over to stay! I'm glad Missy and Andrea came and that you all had hours of laughs and visit. A perfect way to start the summer.

Sue

I spy lots of roses and friends, and the illusive Andrea & Missy with pretty Luanne. Someone made a beautiful and looks to be delicious treat. Did you guys let Andrea eat all the roses?!?

Pam & Michael, thank you so very much!

I've said it before and will say it again, the roses and the garden are miraculous!

Otherwise, I had a wonderful day all around.

I was privileged to meet Regina and Missy, each for the first time, as well as visit with friends. It was GREAT!!!

I posted a few nonrose, nonpeople photos on the other gallery to keep this one's bandwidth manageable.

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My dears. Rosalia is probably the most important day of my year. The garden is blooming after many days of hard work and then my beloved friends come to grace it. There couldn't be anything more wonderful. The photos are fabulous. I must say Michael's are spectacular! Sue the muscians played for free. I have met the others but Steve is my special friend. We have worked in the ceramic studio next to each other for years now. They play folk/celtic music. What an honor to have them.

Sounds like a wonderful weekend with such a beautiful destination as Pam's garden.

I'm jealous, but happy that you all had such a good time. Pam, I love your outfit and the hat was the crowning touch :-). The fairies were obviously hard at work, lots of beautiful blooms out there! It is an enchanted and enchanting place. Andrea could have eaten all the roses she wanted, I would have eaten all of David's cake.....

Carolina

Wow, Michael, you are getting too good with that camera! Beautiful setting for a rose garden, music, a rose party and friends.

Just to flesh out the magnificence, one of the highlights is always Pam's other art work:
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Some of the nicest people you'll ever photograph
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Oh Luanne that's wonderful. Thankyou!

Oh my, back home now, with so many images in my mind, of people and gardens.

Carol, what a pleasure meeting and talking with you, both at CoOR and then at Pamela's. I especially love that shot of Susan and Pamela, and of course the peonies.

Michael AT - again - such a pleasure! It was such fun running around the garden with you and chatting with you as we ran, dashing in for a quick bite, a quick drink, then back out again. I loved it!

And I am also so taken with the views you captured of all that loveliness. The gate, the glimpses, the foggy hills - what beautiful interpretations of what we were seeing. The rain drop closeups are also fascinating. It is especially intriguing how you were focusing on both the macroscopic and the micro, how you managed to create two such different sets of beautiful images.

Luanne - your photos are absolutely wonderful - from the masks to the long views. I am still downloading these on my slow connection, which just gave up on me, so I am still savoring and simply happy there is more to savor.

Susan EelRiver, I don't know if you are reading here, but running around the garden in the rain with you was such a highlight! The rain just disappeared amid the laughter. I could have continued on like that several hours more. It was delightful.

And David and Charlie, again, I don't know if you read here, but I loved our talks, and Olaf simply adores you both, and your Sarah. The house and the garden are just wondrous. Thank you so much for everything.

Pamela and Michael, there just are no words sufficient. What a wonderful party - I met so many interesting people and the setting -- well the setting has been described over and over, and the photos give a taste, but being there is like walking into wonderland. thank you, thank you, thank you Pamela and Michael, for this living, peopled art work which is Rosalia.

In front of the Love Garden

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Regina

And some more photos here

Here is a link that might be useful: More Red Rose Ridge

Regina I saw your beautiful photos on the gallery. Thank you so much. It was a wonderful day. It really is important to me to share the garden with people like you.

Regina that is the best picture of Pam and Michael and thank God you didn't know that Fang never let's us take pictures of her because you took a real doozey and I don't believe you said anything about your camera breaking...Maybe it was your goat cheese that won her over, she couldn't stop praising it, Justly so.
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Luanne, I wish I could take credit for the goat cheese, but that was actually not my creation. Though I did in fact have four goats in a previous incarnation, and actually did make goat cheese in that long ago time.

As for the camera breaking, not even close. I think it works better now than it ever did, with all those good thoughts and good people who emerged from the fog on that happy and glorious Saturday.

With so many people to visit with, I think you and I passed as ships in the night. I look forward to a next time, when we can remedy that oversight! I think I was dashing outside at the least pretext. It was just amazing how I barely felt the rain, and only saw it later on the photos.

Warm hearts are the magical elixir which infused us all on that lovely, mystical day.

Could someone name the folks near the food table please. That food looks great too.

Carla

Luanne, that fourth photo is so pretty with the hills in the background. And thank you for capturing a shot of that big bowl of tapenade off to the right on the table! Yum!!!
I hope you will be posting more pictures soon, and I'm also going to get an eta on Missy's pics.

I agree, that is the best photo of Pam and Michael!

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