NOT THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
Aside

“Why is it that no one ever sent me yet,
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get
One perfect rose,

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Not the last rose of summer but the end of my favourite rose ‘New Dawn’ for another year. I like to think we are kin – created in the same year. It is a delicate pale pink with a delightful fragrance - but then:-

“ A rose is a rose is a rose”

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)