Hey, is that the White Rose symbol for York in your signature? York has a bunch of white rose insignia.
I think both cities took their symbols from the English cities of the war of the roses fame, in which the Lancastrians and Yorkists rivaled one another for domination.
Yes, it is! Yes, they did! York, PA used to have a minor league baseball team called the York White Roses, but I think it's defunct now or has moved or changed its name or something.
I like flowers and summer, particularly June when everything is green and new. Stargazers are an early summer flower, and they give off a permeating and wonderful aroma. But I have to count the rose as my favorite - yellow, red, and white, which occur naturally. The white rose, though, is my very favorite. Every now and again, especially during this dreary, cold, dark time of year, I visit a local emporium and buy a white rose with some kind of accent for along side it. I then put it in a vase somewhere where I will see it regularly (dining room, desk, etc.). In my adult years I have come to absolutely love the natural world as it's so full of beauty.
And there is the historical significance of the white rose. It is a very old heraldic symbol used by the House of York. The red rose, though, doesn't appear to have been used by Lancaster until later.
I like to criticize the superstition and so on of the Middle Ages, but I love studying the period because tracing the development of ideas through Newton and also the structure of society where the aristocracy did and still own everything helps me see how we got
here.
My first thought was that the flower is the Tyrell rose from Game of Thrones.
I don't watch it, but if the flower looks like that, it's probably based on the white rose of York.
How long until creationists start arguing that Genesis' "fountains of the deep" referred to this underground reservoir, and that its discovery proves the historicity of Noah's Flood?
I'm sure the Creation Museum or whatever is already hard at work on that! Dragons and behemoths, of course, are
really dinosaurs.
Never mind the rock layers don't agree.