I am generally a decided critic of the red rose. It impacts the viewer with all that is un-artful about commercialized flower arranging–generic and contrived. The need to reproduce and say ‘Valentine’s Day,’ in the way that is all too expected, has limited what is otherwise so beautiful. I needed a pick-me-up today; flowers were needful. Surprisingly, among the array of other colors, I settled on red. It is reinvigorating to approach what seems uninteresting to find what therein is truly beautiful.
The Weekend Design 