For the Flower Hour, share your images of flowers, gardens, fields of flowers, seasonal leaves and plants, fungus, algae, cacti, blossoms, berries, and wildflowers. Bouquets and silk/faux flowers are welcome.
Mom passed away from lupus after a 30-year struggle, three months before her 80th birthday, on March 3, 2020. We were fortunate to be with her before hospitals closed due to the pandemic.
In her younger years, she often visited her granddaughters and me in Sacramento. She envied my huge American Beauty rose bush that grew in our yard. It boasted roses the size of saucers, and their aroma was heavenly.
Mom loved flowers and especially her roses. She managed to cultivate and grow a few Blue Nile roses. I wish we had taken pictures of her roses, but they looked like these I chose from Pexels on WordPress.
After Mom passed, we kids owned her house. Family transplanted some of her roses to their own gardens before we sold the house. We put one rose in a pot to take with us to Eastern Washington, but sadly, it did not survive the move and the cold winter.
Remember, there are no specific themes for the Flower Hour, so please don’t feel you have to create a memorial post (unless you choose to).
Please use your own photography. And you have all week to link to this post.
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Happy Heavenly Birthday, Mom!
New to The Flower Hour photo challenge? Please check out my page for more information! I encourage “double-dipping” with other blog challenges if you do not want to create a separate post.
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