My goodness, Sherry, I'm having trouble understanding your dissatisfaction with the rose for that location, especially from a blooming perspective. You've had it in the ground for three years and had it so healthy and reblooming for all that time that you've had to cut back some of its long healthy canes? Antique Rose Emporium describes the length of their canes as winding around a 14' pole they pictured, so that part probably didn't come as a surprise. The blooms look wonderful to me, and that's true also past the first ultra-full flush. No rose has two first flushes, unless maybe it's a hybrid musk with an ultra heavy fall flush. But the Red Cascade rose is almost as beautiful in July as it was in May, and few roses happen to be nearly so floriferous as this one when other roses aren't doing much in the heat. This rose looks about as good as it can get for a southern garden to me. In your April picture so full of the red rosy blooms of Red Cascade, notice that most of your other roses really aren't doing much, especially compared to Red Cascade. But in July of last year and this year too, it's holding its own in comparison with many of your other roses. Some roses likely have the beginnings of all the blooms they are going to produce eventually during the season already incipiently present at the start of blooming each year, and their reblooming merely projects those blooms that take much longer to come on than when the first flush appears. I have a feeling from looking closely at your pictures (which show many darkened earlier blooms) that this rose might be of that type, especially considering its parentage. But it hardly matters, since apparently it does contain so very many blooms waiting around to get started at some point during the season. I certainly wouldn't criticize a decision to switch to some other kind of finely feathered evergreen shrub, but all the little red dots of Red Cascade's striking color on beautiful feathery foliage look spectacular to me. I take back all the previous suggestions I posted last night, as I don't see that you could likely improve things any by doing something different. Perhaps your mistake, if you made one, was in choosing a rose you really don't like as much as you thought you would when ordering it. Maybe really tiny flowers aren't noticeable enough to count for much blooming to you? If that's it, then just ignore all the oo-la-lah's I've been thinking in looking at your beautiful rose pictures, Sherry. Just replace those little miniature rose plants if you really prefer larger blooms! Best wishes, Mary

Yeah, I figured it might be possible, but I hope it's not the case and would be less interested in it if it is. I also thought that the tiles might be hand painted. However, the tile above the toilet and the first upper tile to the left of the sink (toward the shower) appear to be identical, as do the first and third (and second and fourth) tiles under the window, so I am still holding out hope that they are part of a series...

Thanks. Glad to know it is not just me. :-) I'll check out some of those sites ravencajun. I tried slacker.com earlier and that won't work well with my slow connection speed. Theradio.com is really awesome when it works... almost continuous music in the genre of your choice.

A voice of dissension here. How will the curtains hang for the majority of time - open or closed? Personally, I prefer the curtains mounted high when they are open - but when they are closed, I prefer that the transoms remain exposed. An alternative may be to have a divided privacy underpanel on an invisible track traversing the entire length of the wall between the top and bottom windows, which can then be concealed beneath the decorative tall curtains during the day. I would also relocate those two grillwork panels. They are attractive but clutter the wall space in an otherwise clean and simple decor.