Pink Saturday

What a pleasure it is to have a small part of the award winning Pink Saturday. If you will stop by, you will see why Beverly at http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog received this great honor.




This pink beauty is from my yard. It has been beautiful every year, but it outdid itself this year. I do not understand how it is even still here. I have really abused it with my lawn mower. Thank goodness for its survival as it truly is one of my prettiest.

Another friend was made this week. She is none other than Kathryn at http://kathryn-papermatters.bkogspot.com. Even though she has not been around too long, she has a very nice blog. You will enjoy visiting her. She is very talented. Also, a former Texan which makes her blog even better.

Sky Watch Friday

Looking out a window at 33,000 feet for Sky Watch Friday. No matter how you travel, there is nothiing better than sky watching.

Vintage Thingies Thursday - Mother's Day Special

Since this the last Thursday before mother's day, I am featuring it for Coloradolady and her other VTT participates.

MAY ALL THE MOTHERS HAVE A SPECIAL BLESSED DAY.

The force behind Mother's Day was Anna Jarvis. She organized it in Virginia and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908. As the annual celebration became popular around the country, Ms. Jarvis asked members of Congress to set aside a day to honor mothers. In 1914, Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.

These are vintage mother's day cards from the 50s and 60s. These were the last two I gave her. We lost her much too soon in 1961.




My grandmother often thought I was my mother as I got older when I went to visit. This is the two of us in much, much younger times.

After I lost my mother, I turned to my grandmother. She became mother and grand mother. She was one of greatest. I seem to have have more memories of her than my mother. She wanted to live to be 100 and be on TV. I assured her I would see that it happened. Unfortunately, she did not make it. This is the sweet lady at 97. She passed away at 98.