April 3, 2010
Saturday, 8:57 A.M.
CarolAnn's house
As she sleeps, which she does a lot, I am straightening up the place a bit. I just took a bag of garbage out to the trash can and what a beautiful day it is going to be! I think of CarolAnn on a normal beautiful, sunny Saturday at home and I can see her in the backyard on her knees, trowel in hand, planting her bulbs or repotting her plants, cleaning up the last vestiges of a harsh winter, edging the flower beds, washing her bird feeders and refilling them, standing back and admiring her work, knowing that when she invites her friends over for a barbecue, they will ooo and aaaah over what she has done with all her blooming treasures. Aside from her cats, who are her only children, plants and flowers are CarolAnn's passion. She works magic with her arrangements and she has two green hands for her gardens. It does bring light tears to my eyes that I can't even get her outside to sit in the sun for a little while, but maybe the same thoughts are going through her mind on these beautiful days and she just can't face the pictures and treasure them as memories the way I do and will...
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