Heart of the Rose

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Rose.

83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan).

Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view].

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

-- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2).

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