Spring Blooming

"As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes literally hundreds, had come in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as though they had been visited by archangels."
Katherine Mansfield....The Garden-Party

In my Silverado Canyon Garden, the Iceburg roses and Cecil Brunner's (it seems overnight) are now blooming. The icebergs with white blossoms next to Iceland poppies. And in the native garden, Cecil Brunner with full-blown pink blossoms! The deep purple iris have also made an appearance and seem to be withstanding the heat in a respectable fashion. Jasmin Polyanthum scents the air and red-breasted male finches and drab brown females vie with a raucous scrub-jay at the bird feeder.