A Rose garden…and a promise…kept!

 

Remember this postcard.  Well, I posted it last month.  It was in among the boxes of antique “stuff”.  It has a 1912 postmark on it. This Elizabeth Park, Rose Garden was donated to Hartford by Elizabeth’s husband to remember Elizabeth by {she preceded him in death about 3 years earlier}  They have done an amazing job keeping it all these years.

Anyways…I bring it up because this garden still exists today AND I was recently  taken for a tour by my brother who lives a short distance from it! At the suggestion of his cute wife Jane {who was away at the time on business}

 

Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens 1912  {notice the gazebo on the left}

The same garden today. Now notice the gazebo!       {images taken from bing, on-line} like in these photos, the roses were not actively blooming on the trellis arches, but the ground bushes were doing nicely!

 Although I’m usually pretty, dog-gone prepared…THIS time I did NOT have my camera with me!!!???!!

What was I thinking??? Ahhhh….NUTS! 

 

Here’s a picture of my OLDER brother and his cute wife.

Now that we were back at their home…. 

I found some wonderful, colorful photo opps. Right… in their …own back yard.

 

 

Just like most of our “treasures” are!

{green, back lawn brought to you by the fancy leg work of my brother moving the sprinkler at semi-regular intervals"} ;-D