Faded

Feeling much better so I went back to work today. On the way home I was looking for something to blip when I saw this faded rose in my neighbor's garden, I am not sure what colour it was before the frost this morning, but by late afternoon it was this really delicate shade of pale pinky mauve.
Looking at it reminded me of the novel by Colleen McCullough  'The Thorn Birds' where Meggie has a party dress this sort of colour which she describes as 'Ashes of Roses'. It;s so funny isn't it how a small thing like a colour, or a smell can take you back 39 years!