#ramblingrose

Jill Raggett

Goldfinch rose and a horse. It’s too dry and shaded to grow anything in the soil around the horse after the rose leaves come out in spring, but the bare flowerbed is mostly hidden by trusses of rose.

Pink cottages have always held a special fascination for me, especially if they are as pretty as this one and have a rustic picket fence in front of them with untamed roses rambling over it! Happy Monday everyone, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! We have hosted a classic American Thanksgiving turkey dinner for friends on Saturday. I kept my autumnal pumpkin decoration up until yesterday when everything fall had to go and now I have a clean slate to start with to decorate for the Advents time and Christmas. How about you? Do you have the halls fully decked out for Christmas already or, like me, not started before the Thanksgiving weekend is over? However your decorating approach is, I wish you a wonderful time during the next four weeks that are leading up to Christmas! Photo was taken in the small town of Rye, East Sussex, England. #organicgardendreams #cottage #cottages #englishcottage #pinkcottage #picketfence #ramblingrose #cottagegarden #cottagegardens #oldhouse #oldcottage #romantic #pink #romanticcottage #england #greatbritain #anglophile #oldhome #historichome #historichomes #beautiful #beautifulcottage #fortheloveofcottages #pinkhouse #rye #eastsussex #instacottage #oldhouse #rose #roses (at Rye, Sussex, England) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW3HVAcL9zm/?utm_medium=tumblr

This week's late #wcw is a wonderful actress whom I still remember fondly from #jurassicpark forever ago, #lauradern! I was only six when that movie came out, and how it scared me, and how I loved it! It was her first big role after her breakthrough in #ramblingrose in 1991, and she's been a bright presence in #hollywood since. I've also seen her in #octobersky, #wild, #jurassicparkiii, #iamsam, the incredible #inlandempire (a movie that deserved a lot more love than it received), and #littlefockers - but I still have not seen #thelastjedi?!?! Anyway. Dern is a pleasure. She seems so sweet and genuine in every interview I've seen her in, like a woman who really loves what she does and doesn't have a big head about it. So refreshing!

You may way to think twice when staying at the #RamblingRose Motel in #Kingman #Arizona along #Route66. The place is doubly haunted, at least in Room 216! The room was restless and so was I with only about 4 hours of sleep and. . .this maybe just sleep paralysis but I thought I heard something moving around in the room after trying to stir myself out of a really dark nightmare that left me feeling dreadful. Most of the unknown that I come into contact with isn't hostile or evil but whatever stirred me out of my sleep was not friendly. I was singing Amazing Grace and said said my prayers before hitting the open road. It's not even sunrise yet! 😅😱👻

I’m replanting quite a bit of my small garden, and have cut back some plants hard including my topiary, both to ensure the garden stays manageable. I know I’ve done the right thing at the right time but some parts looks bit bald and stark. So it’s good to focus on the rambling roses, which together with the clematis, are keeping the show on the road.