We had been there that day for a meal. It was Mother's Day, and as a tradition in our family we had gone to one of our favorite restaurants for dinner. The staff presented my wife with this rose. It was beautiful and lovely. When put in a vase in our house, it gave a bit of nature's beauty to our surroundings. The rose was enjoyed by all.

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

"They(flowers)........are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for their beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."-----Lydia M. Child