I was blessed this week with roses blooming in my garden . I love flowers of all kinds and I especially love roses. This one comes from my garden. It comes from a rose bush that was in my garden when I moved in to my apartment. It has always been a spindly plant and I'm afraid I don't tend to it well. Yet it gives off such pretty blossoms each year. Only a few blossoms though and so they are rather precious to me. Thinking about the beautiful rose brought to mind the famous Shakespearean line about roses. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Meaning What matters is what something is, not what it is called. Origin From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , 1600: JULIET: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that