smell the roses

I really should not be buying bouquets of flowers right now. The temperature outside is freezing, it's dark the majority of the time, and I'm hardly ever home in my apartment to stare at them. 




But maybe that's exactly why I should be buying flowers right now. Because it's freezing, and it's dark, and I'm hardly ever home. 

Plus, garden roses just grab me by the heart. How can you not love those va-va-voom petals?



And how can you not love that cute rosebud on the right, with the little wet nose, who just finished slurping from her water bowl to join the flower fest.
 


So I am going to sit in the warmth and artificial light of my apartment tonight and I am going to smell the roses.