stopping to smell the roses...

There is an incredible public rose garden in our area. I hadn't visited it for years... probably since college. I'd wanted to take the children there for as long as I can remember but every year I seemed to forget until rose season was over. Then one Sunday in mid-June it suddenly came to me... it's prime rose season! Random, I know. We were at church and I immediately told The Husband that we were going to take a detour on the way home that afternoon. My parents attend church with us so we invited them to tag along.

It was a lovely afternoon and I had the camera in the car so I got a few photos. The Boy was not game for having his picture taken and Cha-Cha initially refused to be photographed but I still got a few...





















Cha-Cha "no pictures, mommmmm!"






















Princess trying the door at the conservatory.






















The Boy peeking through a break in a hedge of rosebushes.






















Cha-Cha catches a ride with Grampa on the forest path.






















Princess poses with the roses.






















Cha-Cha is the Queen.






















Princess loves purple.