A Rose from Oklahoma

buon giorno

(Italian for Good Morning!)

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Today I will be finishing up

The Language of Flowers:

Flower of the Month -

the Rose.

The State Flower of Oklahoma is the teacup rose.

Rosa odorata (Andr.) Sweet

It was adopted in April, 2004.

It was developed as a hybrid tea rose in 1964

by Herbert C Swim and O.L. Weeks,

at the Oklahoma State University.

Dottie Weissenberger says she's been working to have the rose

named the state flower since she helped plant 500 of them

at the state Capitol more than 40 years ago!

The Oklahoma hybrid tea rose is a deep crimson representing

the blood shed when the Five Civilized Tribes were moved to Oklahoma (referred to as OK from now on).

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Many of the web sites that are not being currently updated

list the Indian Blanket as the state flower.

The Indian Blanket - Gaillardia pulchella

is now officially listed as Oklahoma's Official Wild Flower.

Indian blanket, Gaillardia pulchella

Another mix up is the difference between

a State Flower

a State Wild Flower

and a State Floral Emblem!

The Oklahoma official State Floral Emblem is mistletoe:

mistletoe

The state quarter issued for Oklahoma shows

the incorrect State Flower as Indian Blanket!

It was issued in 2008, four years after the hybrid tea rose had been voted in as the state flower!

Somebody made a big 'oops' there!

I love the paper cuts found at

http://www.papercutting.blogspot.com/

But again, they list the OK state flower as mistletoe.

Wrong.

As long as you know you are showing the

state floral emblem - the mistletoe, this is a beautiful cutting.

hybrid tea rose

Oklahoma is derived from the Choctaw words:

"okla" - red

"homma" - people

The state was formed in November, 1907 by

a combination of Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory

of the Five Civilized Tribes:

Cherokee

Chickasaw

Choctaw

Creek

Seminole

c.1909

hybrid tea rose

Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty.

The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses

including Isis, Venus and Aphrodite,

and is often used as a symbol of the Virgin Mary.

a lovely beaded red tea rose from

http://www.angelfire.com/

A map showing where the state of OK is in the USA.

From Liana's blog here is a beautiful June birthday dress:

Here is Grace, one of the dolls that fits it.

Next is a lovely green princess gown, with pink roses:

and Sylvia, one of the paper dolls that will fit it.

Oklahoma tea rose

Hybrid tea roses are the favorite rose for much of the history of modern roses.

Hybrid teas were initially created by hybridizing

Hybrid perpetuals with tea roses, in the late 1800's.

'La France' was created in 1867 and is universally acknowledged as the first indication of a new class of roses.

from Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' Broadway show

Browsing around the web, I found this great blog about making broken china into stepping stones.

I hope you enjoy it too:

http://thriftshopromantic.blogspot.com/2007/05/grout-look-or-how-broken-china-mosaics.html

If you are copying and pasting the address,

be sure to get both lines!

and yes....I have wanted to do a broken china stepping stone

for some time!

Guess I better go buy some more paper towels...

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Some famous people born in OK:

Chester Gould, creator of the comic strip 'Dick Tracy'

Maria Tallchief, joined with the newly formed

     New York City Center Ballet

Will Rogers, humorist, stage/film/radio actor, author columnist, 

     and Presidential Candidate on the Anti-Bunk Ticket, 1928

Mickey Mantle, voted American League Most Valuable Player 3

     times (1956, 1957, 1962); elected baseball's Hall of Fame, 1974

Jim Thorpe, This guy as a very long bio, so here are just a few

     highlights: voted 1950 Greatest Athlete of the Century by

     Associated Press;won 2 gold medals in Olympics 1912, but were

     taken away by a technicality - in 1984 the International Olympic

     Committee returned the gold medals to Thorpe's family; 1st

     President 1920 of American Professional Association; helped

     found National Football League 1922;

and after retiring, he became a Western movie actor, and spoke on behalf of Native American education!

State flag

More fun rose trivia:

Portland, Oregon counts "City of Roses" among its nicknames.

     It holds an annual Rose Festival.



The rose is the national flower of England and the United States,

as well as being the symbol of:

     English Rugby,

     the Rugby Football Union;

     provincial flower of Yorkshire - the white rose

     and Lancashire - the red rose (both in England);

     and the provincial flower of Alberta (Canada)

Roses are so important that the word means pink or red in a variety of languages (such as Romance languages, Greek and Polish)

Well, frankly I'm about 'rosed' out!

Lefton green heritage hand painted porcelain tea cup,

for sale at http://www.misstiques.etsy.com/

pink roses chintz mosaic tiles from http://www.mountainmoonmosaics.etsy.com/

They have a very good selection of pre-cut mosaic tiles.

A coloring page done in the stained glass style -

courtesy Dover Publications

Let's finish up with a great vintage song sheet cover:

c.1918



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A rose is a rose is a rose...

Bonjour!

watercolor by jbwolen.etsy.com

We have had just some gorgeous days!

Summer, for now, is showing her bright sunny face.

Tanner has enjoyed sunning himself every day.

He goes out, finds a nice spot, and sleeps in the sun.

He gets hot, and wants in.

He lays in the office to cool off, and then...

He wants out

to find a nice spot in the sun, and sleep.

And get hot.

So then he wants in.....

See how I spend my days!!

looking for a good hot spot...

Yesssss.....

oh yeah, hot concrete....

I'm hot now, let me in....

Gotta love him!

But really, today's blog is about roses.

a yellow rose in the gardens of DisneyLand, California

One Perfect Rose

By Dorothy Parker

A single flow’r he sent me, since we met.

          All tenderly his messenger he chose;

Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet-

          One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret;

          “My fragile leaves,” it said, “his heart enclose.”

Love long has taken for his amulet

          One perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet

          One perfect limousine, do you suppose?

Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get

          One perfect rose.

Rose in the gardens of Walt Disney World: Epcot, Florida

I'm sorry, I don't know the creator of these lovely cards.

Rose shrubs are often used by homeowners and landscape architects

for home security purposes.

The sharp thorns of many rose species deter "unauthorized persons"

(politically correct, you know!)

from entering private properties.

They may prevent break-ins if planted under windows and near drain pipes.

The aesthetic characteristics of rose shrubs,

in conjunction with their home security qualities,

makes them a desirable alternative

to artificial fences and walls.

(Oh, who DOES write this way???)

I have looked at so many different web sites on roses, I am not sure

which this one is from, but they need to loosen up, 'ya think?

vintage 'toothpaste' ad

c. 1899

Despite the presence of thorns (pricklies!), deer will happily munch on them.

Gardening here in the Rocky Mountains has its' difficulties,

among which are the munching deer,

and the hungry elks.

In the cities/suburbs squirrels are the big destructive mob.

They eat electrical cords, canopies, houses (yes, they will chew right

through the house wall to make nests inside!)

patio furniture, most bird feeders and all of your plants!

Where I live the bunnies can be a problem.

They make holes and dens in my flower gardens.

They chew on the spring bulbs.

They love gardens - free buffet - all you can eat!

healing rose mandala, for sale at holly and ivy

Let's have a fun paper doll with lots of lovely roses:

Rose Valley is a region in Bulgaria located just south of

the Balkan mountains. It is famous for its rose growing industry,

from which 70% of the world's rose oil is produced.

vintage song sheet graphics

White Rose

 was a World War II non-violent resistance group in Germany.

Here is a coloring page for you.

Let a child pick their own colors, and it can be amazing what alternative colors they come up with!

One of my favorite Christmas ornaments is a paper Santa Claus

that Peter colored in the 1st Grade -

a very blue Santa Claus!

Rose hips are sometimes eaten, mainly for their Vitamin C content.

They are usually pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup.

This process removes the fine hairs surrounding the seeds,

which are icky to eat, and resembles itching powder.

Pierre Auguste Renoir,

"Les Roses Dans un Vase"

c.1910 - 1917

Rose hips are used to produce an oil used in skin products.

They can also be used to make herbal tea,

jam, jelly and marmalade.

A rose that has aged or gone rotten

may not be particularly fragrant,

but the roses' basic chemistry prevents it

from stinking or having a bad odor of any kind.

c.1914

When aged roses are mashed together,

 the fragrance of the rose is enhanced.

The fragrance of particularly large balls of mashed roses

is enhanced even further.

Here is an embroidery transfer from

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While the state flower of Texas is NOT a rose,

the Yellow Rose of Texas is very familiar.

more lovely paper punched flower cards

a vintage illustration

Here is another of Liana's lovely paper doll dress creations:

You can find two paper dolls that fit this in previous blogs,

or visit Liana's Blog site. The addy is on the right side of my blog!

polymer clay roses by pearldelta.etsy.com

A red rose (often held in a hand)

 is the symbol of socialism or social democracy.

It is also used as a symbol by the British and Irish Labour Parties,

as well as by

the French, Swedish, Finnish, Brazilian, Portuguese, Norwegian,

Spanish (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party),

the Dutch (Partij van de Arbeid)

and European socialist parties.

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Using a single red rose as a symbol of socialism or social democracy

originates from the red rose used as a badge by the marchers

in the May 1968 street protests in Paris.

'Rose for a Duchess'

a photo processed print for sale from

http://www.fleurbonheur.etsy.com/

She does quite lovely and unusual work.

I really like her 'style'.

Here is another of her works, with embroidery:

Well, that's it for today!

I hope you have enjoyed this venture into

The Rose.

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