Years Ago

My emotions are running wild and I'm finding it...

a little difficult to create a post...

This morning Herhusband and I took flowers to

the cemetery for his parents' grave site.

Today...May 22nd...would have been

his mother's 91st Birthday.

She passed in 1980.

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Hazel

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June 4th marks the 2nd year anniversary of

my own mother's passing at the age of 81...

she passed on the day after...

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Juanita

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my Dad's birth date of June 3rd...

he would have been 89 this year.

He passed in 1980.

June 3rd was their wedding anniversary too.

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Gene

This is my dad with me...years ago...
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this is my dad's mom taking a walk with me...
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Nora

This is my sister Joyce on the left...
her birthday is June 7th...the day on which
our mother had been buried...
making it a bittersweet time for her.
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Among these dates...
grandson Dylan has a birthday on May 28th...
daughter-in-law Cindy's birthday is June 4th...
granddaughter Alivia's birthday is June 6th...
and grandson Andrew's is June 19th
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All so close together!
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That's my reasons for my range of emotions...

So today I will do this small post for our mothers...
on his mother's birthday.

but even with today's beautiful sky...
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the sadness makes me settle for posting
mostly about flowers and things of nature...
like the blackberry bushes that are really...

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full of blooms this year...
My mother would forge right to the middle...
even climb a fence to get the largest berries.
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At a distance they are so similar to the
wild roses that are blooming now too.
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Just walking down the drive...
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you can easily smell their sweetness.
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It is Spring all over...everything is busy...
especially the wrens that built this nest in
the new birdhouse...almost full to the top!
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I found a Cardinal's nest in the Forsythia...
with 1 egg the first day...
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and today...2 eggs...one is larger though???...
Cow birds lay their eggs in nests of others...
maybe they don't make good mothers...
I'll keep watching...
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This is a different variety of Poppy...
blooms slightly later...
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This is a Japanese Iris started by mother-in-law
over 50 years ago...
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and a Peony grown by her that I took
from the old home site.
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This is the bird feeder out front with
a House Finch, Gold Finches, and a Cardinal's
tail just barely showing.
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These wild flowers come up all over...
don't yet know what they are...
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and a caterpillar making his way through
a forest of leaves...
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This is False Indigo Blue...given to me
by my son Steve...just starting to bloom.
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A flower basket Herhusband and I bought at
Lowe's while a Mocking Bird serenaded us!
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Pansies by the front steps...in a pot that once
years ago belonged to my mother-in-law.
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A basket of Lobelia...

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Can you spot a baby deer...with spots?

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-enlarges-

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The fawn was resting in the field one day...
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Herhusband spotted it while mowing...
Walked back to the house to inform me...
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I was able to get fairly close...
before it ran off...which I regretted causing...
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but mother and child reunited...

never any danger of being lost or forgotten.
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This is a photo that I think represents

my mother's personality...she was dressed as a

fortune teller at a party for the grandchildren...

and told their fortunes...

a few.....years ago!

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Here's an Honesty plant...

that just keeps popping up... all over the yard...
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it was started from seeds...

given to me by my mother...several years ago!