The Blue Rose

My friend Becky sent me this the other day and I wanted to share. For those of you that don't know the story, I have a blue rose tattoo on my right arm. Why blue you ask? When I was a little girl, my mother used to read me the story of Beauty and the Beast (it's probably why it's my favorite Disney movie as well). In the version she read to me, Belle's father took a blue rose from the Beast's garden to give to his daughter and that is how he was captured by the Beast. The story always stayed with me (what a father/daughter will do for love) and that's why I chose to go with blue and not the traditional red or any other color. When my brother was a little boy, one Mother's Day my dad helped him dye a white rose blue to give to my mom. Becky lives in New York and saw these at her local bodega and thought of me. Thanks for the beautiful picture Becky!