mom's rose and shiva's shadow and hunger!
morning light
In her day mom was very into growing roses and had all varieties of them planted in different places around the yard. I'm a little ashamed to say I didn't step up and start to take care of them for her when she had her stroke in 1986 so they have gone without pruning or fertiliation or even weeding all these years. There are only a few left alive growing along the east side of the house. Those ones still bloom - certainly not as strongly as they would if they got some care but they are still there! I walked around the house this morning and was surprised to see this perfect bloom. I cut it and brought it in to her and she sniffed it - barely perceptibly but I could see that she was. She always loved smelling her roses.
shadow this evening
Hunger - as a compulsive eater I am having a terrible time right now - the sadness and stress is getting to me I guess. Every night (and many times during the day) I feel like an animal prowling the house looking for food - sweets, chocolate, fatty foods - but we really don't have any here! If they are here, then they are quickly eaten so then they are not here anymore. We don't buy them very often so it's not too bad - but I'm still HUNGRY. I had Dave buy banana popsicles yesterday so I am having a run on them. They satisfy in quite a few ways - sweet, cold and refreshing (in this hot weather). Just finished one and now it's time for another...