hellooo november :)

today is my mom's birthday, she would have been 84 yrs old.

she died of lung cancer 11/13/08 and I miss her terribly every day.

when she died, my sisters and I divided up her plants.

I have one of her Christmas cactus plants.

and in honor of my mom's birthday, it has this beautiful flower today

:)

 

this is also the first November since 1979 that I am not overloaded with retail stress.

I am going to see this month and all it's beauty :)

I am going to see the gray stuff,

the temperature drop, the election signs,

the wilting pumpkins,

the rusty dried leaves

and smile...

hellooo November, I hope to enjoy the hell out of you this go round 

:)

one more image to add -

I bought an annual for the front step this spring, and it barely made it through the season.

I brought it inside a couple of weeks ago and it now has a few buds!

it feels like an omen, a message of new life...

:)

so hellooo November :)



a day to remember...

it's been so long since i posted here, i'm not sure i remember how...
happy birthday to mom, missed and loved and remembered forever... we missed your smile and dancing at the wedding, but knew you were on the dance floor with us during the twist and we are family :), heard you seeing blue bayou today, and felt your love and prayers lifting kelly and butch up in their fight against cancer...wish you were here, i miss you every day but most of all in november, come back and visit please, it helps :)

you say goodbye...

i say helloooo...
GREETINGS!!

thursday
april 8
the photo hunt word of the day was greeting.
i look for words that have multiple interpretations and then couldn't come up with anything. i drove around town - my new daily habit - looking for anything that could be a greeting.
i saw welcome signs all over but the welcome to East Windsor was unique - someone made an effort to customize that greeting - well done!
then it dawned on me - a yellow ribbon. but how do you find that? it's like a needle in a haystack. so i kept driving and driving. finally, there in front of me, much to my surprise, was a house with TWO yellow ribbons tied to their old oak trees. i found i wanted to know the story that prompted the ribbons...
down the same street was a greeting of respect - a serviceman, saluting. i imagine that there's someone in this neighborhood on a tour of duty and the entire neighborhood shows their support...
i ended the day back at home, with my collection of antique postcards from the early 1900's. i include these greetings and say hey to the adventurers that sent the greeting back in the day. i admire you and send greetings, hoping your journeys continue...