Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writing in the voice of his “greatest detective” character, Sherlock Holmes, presented a tribute to this magnificent natural beauty (read below the photo).
During a brief lull in a criminal investigation (“The Adventure of the Naval Treaty”), Sherlock Holmes took a moment to smell a red rose. The flower, he remarked to his friend Dr, Watson, clearly was evidence of divine beneficence. “Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers,” proclaimed the world’s greatest detective. “All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again we have much to hope from the flowers.”
The roses in the photo will assure goodness at our table this weekend.
With your permission, I have included you on my blog roll. If you would like me to change that, please let me know. I just pasted your wonderful ‘Never Forget’ in my sidebar–Thanks so much!
Hello VerityINK,
We’re glad to be on your blogroll. I went to your site and it looks like we’re like-minded on the hot topics of the day. We have reciprocated, and you are now on our blogroll as well.
Also, thanks for flying the Never Forget animation — in a couple of months or less, we should pass the 20 million mark that animation has been displayed on websites around the world (since we started counting, that is).
Thank you! I’ll pass it around our blog-family!