Mom’s rose garden
Mom had a few rose plants that had been given to her at different occasions. She didn’t realize that they require a lot of care. After working in Mr. Anderson’s rose garden, (he had like 100 roses) I was able to start helping her take better care of them. I got fertilizer, bug spray and tools to help with that. After feeding, trimming and care, her plants were producing some beautiful long stemmed red and yellow roses. I think it gave her a lot of joy. She actually smiled when they blossomed. I wish I would have visited and helped her more often that I did.
Her last rose season was amazing. I believe that the Lord blessed her and I with our last summer together with the most beautiful, amazing show of flowers. 2 of the once long stem bushes became huge climbing bushes and were loaded with her favorite color, pink roses.
He also gave us the miracle of birth. Outside of her kitchen window, where she washes dishes 3 x’s a day, a robin was building a nest and we watched each day as she did. Then there were eggs, and it was time to see the eggs hatch. We found joy in watching mama bird bring worms to the little ones. We tried to guess when they would fly and we wanted to see when they did. One day the nest fell down- she had built it on the crook of the eves trough. We had conflicting ideas about what to do – pick it up and risk the robin never coming back or help her out and put it back up. I had the idea to put on gloves, so my smell wouldn’t be on the nest, mom was ok with that.
