Photos by Lolita
July 28, 2007
"A dozen roses is a choir:
A Single rose is its soloist."
----Karen
"He/she who would have beautiful
roses in his garden must have beautiful roses in his heart."
----Samuel Reynolds Hole, rosarian,
1869
"You may break, you may
shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will
hang round it still."
---Thomas Moore
"There is material enough
in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals."
----John Ruskin, Stones of Venice