Sherry, of her blog If Only Sweat Were Irrigation, was kind enough recently to bestow on me the Stylish Blogger Award. As a garden blogger, I'm thankful that at least a few others are reading and enjoying the blog and I hope I can live up to those expectations.According to the guidelines given for the SBA, I must a) link back to Sherry's blog (see above), b) give seven facts about myself and c) pass the award on to other bloggers that I consider deserving. So, in that spirit, my seven disclosures are:
1. I hate Spirea in all forms and colors.
2. My writing interest goes way back, encouraged by a 4th grade teacher who gave us brownie points for writing poems and then by a pair of very dedicated high school English teachers who essentially created an advanced English curriculum specifically for me, long before "Advanced Placement" classes became common.
3. I got hooked on Old Garden Roses because of a book by Thomas Christopher, In Search of Old Roses. It's an addiction I'm unable to break.
4. I'm a Taurus, earthy and stubborn. Anyone surprised? What's your sign Baby?
5. As a young boy, aged 6 or 7, I would paint the wooden fence posts around the farm all afternoon for a 60 cent book. My mother should have been jailed for violation of child labor laws.
6. As a teenager, I used to chuckle at my father planting flowers around the house. It seems that he got the last laugh.
7. If you'd have asked me when I was 17, Kansas is the last place in the USA I would have told you that I was likely to move to.
And I would like to nominate two bloggers that I follow every day for the Stylish Blogger Award. I found both of them through the gardenweb.com rose forums and they've become friends I've never met. The first is Connie @ Hartwood Roses who writes a really nice, varied blog about her greyhounds and her home and her roses. Oh yeah, and she runs a mail-order rose plant business. The second is Paul Barden @ Paul Barden's Roses. Paul is a rose hybridizer extraordinaire whose knowledge of rose breeding is far beyond anything I've ever heard of or encountered, and I suspect I've only seen the surface so far. I expect Paul to someday end up being spoken of in the same breath with Austin, Moore, Buck, McGredy, Kordes, and other legends.
2. My writing interest goes way back, encouraged by a 4th grade teacher who gave us brownie points for writing poems and then by a pair of very dedicated high school English teachers who essentially created an advanced English curriculum specifically for me, long before "Advanced Placement" classes became common.
3. I got hooked on Old Garden Roses because of a book by Thomas Christopher, In Search of Old Roses. It's an addiction I'm unable to break.
4. I'm a Taurus, earthy and stubborn. Anyone surprised? What's your sign Baby?
5. As a young boy, aged 6 or 7, I would paint the wooden fence posts around the farm all afternoon for a 60 cent book. My mother should have been jailed for violation of child labor laws.
6. As a teenager, I used to chuckle at my father planting flowers around the house. It seems that he got the last laugh.
7. If you'd have asked me when I was 17, Kansas is the last place in the USA I would have told you that I was likely to move to.
And I would like to nominate two bloggers that I follow every day for the Stylish Blogger Award. I found both of them through the gardenweb.com rose forums and they've become friends I've never met. The first is Connie @ Hartwood Roses who writes a really nice, varied blog about her greyhounds and her home and her roses. Oh yeah, and she runs a mail-order rose plant business. The second is Paul Barden @ Paul Barden's Roses. Paul is a rose hybridizer extraordinaire whose knowledge of rose breeding is far beyond anything I've ever heard of or encountered, and I suspect I've only seen the surface so far. I expect Paul to someday end up being spoken of in the same breath with Austin, Moore, Buck, McGredy, Kordes, and other legends.
Very stylishly done, Professor. I liked #6 the best. :))
ReplyDeleteProfessor, darling, I am touched!! "Varied" seems like such a gentle way to say, "She's all over the place". I totally agree with you regarding Paul Barden ... oh, the things that must be inside his head! I read "In Search of Lost Roses" to fuel my love of found roses, which are still a total addiction for me. What a thrill it has been to actually become friends with Doug Seidel, one of the subjects in that book. He is speaking at the symposium in Lynchburg next month, and I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteHmmm ... now, what shall I share with everyone that they don't already know? I will have to think about this one.