Nothing beats reading the Sunday New York Times when it usually arrives at around 8 in the evening on Saturday. But sometimes the carrier decides to deliver it the next day. That happened today.

So it was our usual breakfast in bed and I was reading the Book Review. I was attracted to reading a review, Rennaisance Woman – The Life of Vittoria Colonna by  Ramie Targoff. The reason is that I have read a few books by the reviewer  Sarah Dunant.

Within that review I read this:

Titian painted a notably erotic Mary Magdalene for her.

Because in 2018 you can I looked up in Google (in my smart phone in bed) Titian – Mary Magdalene

What I found was not entirely erotic. But below was a secondary image. 

That satisfied my curiousity. I dressed and went to our deck garden and cut a bloom of an almost spent bloom from my English Rose, Rosa ‘Mary Magadalene’.

Now for anybody who thinks our past was rosy what do you think now?

The only rosy thing in my immediate past is that this bloom now fading to almost white emerged pink (an un yet not too reformed Mary Magdalene).