Mom loves flowers
Mom loves flowers.
It is just that plain and simple. Doesn't matter what kind, she loves them all.
During the spring and summer flower season, even though she is, umm-let me see, how old? Well, I will just say that when much younger people have long called it a day, Mom is still outside working in her flowers! In the dark!
Several times my sister, Linda and I have taken her flower shopping. I believe she looks at every individual flower and asks them if they want to go home with her, and I believe they say a big "YES!"
I have pretty good success with my indoor plants, but I can't hold a candle with Mom when it comes to outside flowers. She just plain has a way with them.
Last summer I picked her up after church one day and we went flower shopping. We didn't just stop with the nursery. No, not us! We went wild flower picking!
We had seen fields of gorgeous yellow flowers and neither of us knew what they were. I thought she would have known, but she didn't. We asked a couple people what they were and they told us the old fashioned bitter weed. But we knew better because they were in fields where cows were eating them.
Now you don't let cows eat bitter weed, at least the older people in my life didn't. For you younger generation who may not know why, it is because the bitterness gets into the momma's milk. Oo-ee. Not good.
Anyway, we stopped along the side of the road and I got out of the car and picked several for Mom. One of the stops we made was on the side of the highway and I said to Mom, "No telling what people think I'm doing out here!
Remember, my name and picture are all over my car."
But Mom didn't reallly care and it didn't stop us.
We decided to go through the country, wild flower picking. I got out in one place I can't believe I would ever have ventured. You talk about snakey!' But Mom wanted those pretty white wild flowers, and anything for Mom.
Right?
A little further down the road we came upon some pretty pink ones. They sorta made you think of roses. We weren't able to get any of those, but we sure gave it a good try.
By the time we got home, we had the back of my vehicle loaded with flowers. Nursery raised ones and God raised ones. What fun we had! That day will always stick in my memory as one of my most fun and treasured days.
The day of "MOMMA, WILD FLOWERS, AND ME.
Love ya Mom. Many happy flower days to you.
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