For most of her life, Jay W. MacIntosh (born Janet Tallulah Jewell) has loved flowers. It started when she was little. When her mother planted vegetables, she planted flowers. When her mother harvested carrots or lettuce or squash, she picked flowers. As she grew older, she knew most of the homes with fresh flowers in their yards. She knew hedges with flowers and yards with jonquils and tulips and narcissus. Her love affair with flowers continued. In later life, she became interested in photography and began taking pictures of roses. This book is a collection of her favorites with selected...

For most of her life, Jay W. MacIntosh (born Janet Tallulah Jewell) has loved flowers. It started when she was little. When her mother planted vegetables, she planted flowers. When her mother harvested carrots or lettuce or squash, she picked flowers. As she grew older, she knew most of the homes with fresh flowers in their yards. She knew hedges with flowers and yards with jonquils and tulips and narcissus. Her love affair with flowers continued. In later life, she became interested in photography and began taking pictures of roses. This book is a collection of her favorites with selected...

Janet Tallulah was born in a small town in Georgia in the 1930's. She was the third daughter of young man who owned a chicken hatchery with his mother. Janet's mother was a housewife. She raised Janet to be a housewife. Prim, proper, obedient. Play nice, be fair, go to church. Janet had other plans. Lead, shine, star, confront, enjoy, explore. By the time Janet was 31, she left Georgia and moved to Los Angeles, California - taking her husband and children with her. This Journal begins after Janet had been in LA for a year. Depressed, discouraged, and disillusioned, Janet attended a retreat...