These flowers are not growing in my garden, but instead are a few of the roses and peonies I’ve been enjoying during afternoon and evening neighbourhood walks with Piper. These photographs are from the week of June 3rd through June 9th.

“You love the roses - so do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!”

~ George Eliot, Roses