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Welcome!

I’m a practicing rose gardener and designer by day, traveling from site to site with my tools – and nightly – well, this is my blog about Roses, Travels, Artists, Design, TBI, and Blogging.

Learn More About my Journey

I hope you find something interesting in each Category – I’ve tried hard to bring back relevant articles from my side excursions along the way too.

At work in a rose garden
Deadheading roses in community gardens
The Royal Procession of King Charles III
  • Point Defiance Rose Garden gazebo as seen from the roses
    Working in PNW rose gardens
  • Etienne in Mdina
    Travelling the southern Mediterranean
  • Doing hospital remodels
  • The EU includes Malta
  • Repairing espalier roses
  • Etienne in a Malta church with classical art
    On the trail of Caravaggio
  • Monet: Japanese bridge and water lilies symphony
    Visiting Monet’s art, Paris
  • Monet's bridge at Giverny 2023
    Visiting Monet’s gardens, Giverny
  • Knights of Malta at prayer in a church
    Finding the Knights of St. John
  • Stick & rope layout of a new garden
    Sharing hands-on design methods
  • Dali: surreal self-portrait, at his museum in Figueres Spain
    Laughing through Dali’s amazing museum
  • Multicolored butterflies drinking water from a dish hung from a house eave
    Including pollinators in garden designs
  • Studying fortified cities
  • Visiting ancient Cyprus mosaics
  • Visiting the Lads at home
  • Etienne & the Web Troll
    Meeting folks in gardens
  • Walking the Acropolis
  • On the trail of Van Gogh
  • See me the roses?
    Sharing common rose growing methods
  • White cat behind a pail & in front of a red rose in a clay pot
    Yeah, I’m a cats & gardens kinda guy . .
  • Here’s my 21st century diary . . .

I'm Etienne, the 'traveler with rose tools'. I'm always looking for great rose gardens, authentic & talented individuals, good regional food, and cultural discovery away from tourist crowds.

Me & my welcoming host at the Madrid train station

Since travel can be life-changing, I'm trying to share my own stories of discoveries about roses, gardening, art, and travel that'll get you off the sofa and out & about. This search cloud will help you find topics quickly.

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Recent thoughts . .

  • TBI: Learning Hope and Resilience
  • TBI: Omaha’s best kept secret?
  • TBI: The Emotional Toll
  • TBI: Seattle’s Harborview Hospital
  • Outsmarting Weeds & Invasive Plants
  • 6 beneficial pests in your rose garden
  • Up close & personal
  • Colorful light rail in France . . .
  • Monet's home, Giverny France
  • Big Ben, London
  • Maltese summer shading
  • The main canal & citadel in Perpignon, France
  • Gnarly seaside succulents . . .
  • Great wall climbing rose in Oxford's Botanic Garden
  • Dorothy McKibben from the Los Alamos days
    Nuclear Age hero, Dorothy McKibben from Santa Fe
  • The Royal Procession of King Charles III
  • Jurrasic Valletta in Malta
  • Aerial view of St. Catherine's garden, Malta
    St. Catherine's sunken garden, Malta
  • Working as a MLB groundskeeper in Cactus League Baseball
  • Venemous snake warning sign at our library in Arizona
    Arizona urban reality check
  • Anti-fascist European street art
  • Among some of the oldest set stones on earth
  • America's Rose Garden painted & carved entry sign
    ARS gardens, Shreveport
  • Catbot, my AI chat avatar
  • Grave of romantic poet John Keats, Rome
  • My 6 ft garden friend, Phoenix
  • Bogey with the Maltese Falcon & cast from the movie
    The Maltese Falcon back story is real
  • Environmental street art celebrating the bees
    European EcoArt warning from the bees
  • Talk to the marble hand, Capitoline Musuem, Rome
  • Big red Hop-on, Hop-off bus
    I start in large cities with the big red bus . .

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