Happy first of June!

The Rose Festival has started! Yayyy. This is the one hundredth anniversary of the first Rose Festival, and they are going all out for it! More parades, more events, more family-friendly stuff at the river-front Fun-Center. I'm going to try to sneak away sometime next week and get pictures of the Dragon Boats. (And maybe of some of the Various Navy ships that come upstream to spawn this time of year. the Canadian Navy is particularly fond of Portland as a liberty port.)

Since it IS Rose season, here are a few of our roses.


This one is called, "Double Delight." Quite hardy and quite fragrant. AND. it gets pink in the sun. A shady week gives us cream and yellow blooms.












Apologies to Lucia: I'm channeling my inner Georgia O'Keef again. Calla Lillies are so - willing.











And honest to Gosh, this pansy wintered over and is as leggy as a fifteen-year old boy just starting a growth spurt. But it's so YELLOW!!


Yesterday, it got up to 89. I took old three-legged Jack and a rough draft of a book written by a friend, and settled myself in the sling chair. Jack soon hopped out and made himself a nice nest in the ivy beside me, Fly mooched up, hopped into the sling chair with me, and sprawled across my chest with no regard for the tender bits. Once I got him settled more comfortably, he purred out piles of his patented sleepy sand (We don't have a sand man. We have sand cats.) and pretty much burried me for the rest of the afternoon. Which was a good thing, because I stayed up to watch the new "Pirates" reality show. OK, I'm a sucker for these adventure reality shows. The first guy thrown off the boat calls himself a "Scientist / Exotic Dancer." for starters, no one is just a scientist. Every scientist is a specialist. Be he micro-hydro-bio-palentologist (a very small scientist who likes old wet lettuce) or a nuclear physicist, he has a specialty. And an Exotic Dancer? Well, he had the looks for it, I can't deny. Like a black-haired young Fabio. But what a jerk!

On other fronts, check out http://whatswaniettaknittingtoday.blogspot.com to see pictures of the Toronto Spiders and their astounding back-to-back sweater!

And then check out how many people have your name at how/'>http://howmanyofme.com . There are five Roxanna Matthews in the US, and if you google the name, I'm the one who comes up!