New Year — a Sombre Beginning
Shortly after I took these photos of sunrise on the last day of 2014, Pater got the news that his mother had passed away earlier that morning. She was 87, had lived a rich, full,…
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Memory, Its Changing Role, at A Certain Age
Lately, I’ve been fascinated by a changing awareness of memory and how it’s working at this stage of my life. To be precise about “this stage,” I’ve just turned 61. My mother died shortly before…
View PostGarden Memories (Again)
Most of you, if you garden at all, or visit gardens, will know the ever-popular, oh-so-useful herbaceous perennial, Alchemilla mollis, commonly known as Lady’s Mantle. It’s a wonderful ground cover and/or filler, softening edges and…
View PostAnniversary Blooms and Belly Buttons
A year ago today, my Mother left us to our memories of her. Some of those memories bloom in my garden — so many plants she brought here from her own. The omphalodes cappadocica in…
View PostRemembering and Making Memories at Christmas
Just a year ago . . . my beautiful sister, pictured above, drove my Mother downtown to join our twig of the family tree–myself, Mom’s oldest daughter, with Paul, her son-in-law; our four children, her…
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