Remembering Mother....................

It's Mother's Day in the USA.  
It rolled around again on the fleet-footed days of another year............how fast time flies when you're a mother. When the children are small they keep you hopping 24/7. Later they keep you worrying day in, day out. Suddenly you look at them and they aren't children anymore, but you're still concerned for their welfare, plus often that of their children, your precious grandchildren.

I took these images recently around the cottage......then playing with them in the PicMonkey editing program which I love for its ease and quickness.

My home doesn't really look as old as this, an apparition enabled via technology. Not that I'd mind if it did because I do love this look, washed with patina, tea-stained and faded.  

I think of my mother and wonder how she would like the way I decorate now. It is all very different from when she was around to visit.......crossing the pond to embrace life in America for a few weeks every now and then. I was so much younger, we were on a tight budget, raising a family, and living in rentals where I wasn't even allowed to paint walls....and admonished by landlords for making holes to actually hang things on them!

Below is my most precious and favorite photo of my 

late mother. Taken on her 21st birthday in 1932, 

it shows her as the elegant and proud woman 

she was then and continued to be 

until she died at age 91.

The silver lidded powder bowl was a 21st birthday 

gift from her father, a little treasure she 

passed along to me.

Although she's no longer here to read my card or 

open my gift.......I'm thinking of her today and 

thanking her, as I do every year, for being 

the wonderful mother she was.

A very happy MOTHER'S DAY to each of you. I hope 

your children remember you today with love and affection, 

respect and kindness.