Yup. I know this one. LOL I now have loppers 3 feet long to prune mine. I actually got stabbed in the chest by a rose one year and ended up having minor surgery when it got infected and absessed. Blasted roses...LOL

Cute, I think I lost that battle a few times myself :o)

Ouch yuk and great shot!! May you have gorgeous blooms!!

Nice bling lol! Hardy garden gloves are a good protection for this kind of work, but no doubt you will already have something like that, but didn't come out prepared tut-tut!.

ahh blood (fainted) :o)..you should know better than to fight with roses you will never win .if that rock on your finger had caught the sun i`d of been blinded now .great action shot mariyn :o) mick

Ouch! Medic.... That must hurt. Aloha

Auchhhh :-)

Wear gardening gloves...heehee! I know, you won't wear them, Marilyn. Hey, your pruning shears has a nice little face on it. Like a little monster chomping away at the stems.

OUCH! I hear they feel bad and send you gorgeous flowers later.

yep very ouch! where are your garden gloves young lady?

I know EXACTLY how it is!! And wearing gloves is so hard, cuts one off from nature!

Photostar has spotted the face, I think it looks like Pac-Man, the chommping things in the early computer games. That ring on your pinky looks a bit tight Marilyn, the other one looks gorgeous, I wonder what stone it is? Saphire maybe? I have just purchased some Saphires on eBay, I am going to polish them for making jewelry. A small dab of iodine keep the germs out of that scratch. Excellent one handed capture. Bravo!!!!!

they always do... great photograph.

Nice face on the tool! :) I always wear leather gloves. I'm a wuss.

thank you for looking at my pictures ashleigh xxx

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Oh my Marilyn!! careful careful me fair lady!!! In order to preserve beauty we make small sacrifices yes as illustrated here!

Oh Dear Marilyn, make sure you bathe those scratches in antiseptic you cannot be too careful - poor you hugs Jane xx

look like war here. hope you win too. this is a good shot of what you have to go thought

Those hands look like mine do after a day at work. You better take care of them. We still need more of your pictures.

Oooh, I missed this one, but AH...here it is. Yeah, pruning roses is definitely a painful pursuit! It always looks so good when done though! OUCH. The snipper-thingies (I never know what to call garden tools) are captured wonderfully, especially since the cutting blades look a bit like a dragon or some other quasi-reptilian creature! I love that bit, as well as the down and dirty nature of...well...working close to soil! It's a refreshing feeling I know...even though I was always the one getting down and dirty, looking for woodlice and slugs, rather than pruning things back. But that's just me...I'm weird like that.