A Rose So Sweet

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying:

And this same flower that smiles today

To-morrow will be dying

by Robert Herrick

My good friend Sarah was kind enough to make me this beautiful cream coloured shopping tote with a rose print. I sat outside on my patio yesterday admiring the shock of pink of the climbing rose bush that just recently budded out.  I can see why roses have been the inspiration for music, poetry and art work for centuries.