“The best things in life are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.”

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Friends are flowers in the garden of life someone once said. My Mom would say that her flowers were her friends, too. Along with her 2-legged friends. The same few she has cherished for most of her almost 90 years.

Mom’s flowers, or at least some of them, are moving this week. I head to Delaware to transplant some her her beloved orchids, geraniums, and other treasured beauties to their new sunny spot outside her door at the Heritage House Assisted Living in Milford, DE.Their fragrance and sweet familiarity will hopefully brighten her days as her fractured back and ankle heel.

It will be bittersweet for me, as I see her there and not home. But she is such a trooper. Grateful to have a beautiful little room with wonderful staff who care.

So off I fly from WI to DE tomorrow. Yes, there will be a huge bouquet of flowers in my hand. None, I know, will mean so much to her as her sweet friends from her little greenhouse at home.

Pick a beautiful bunch of fresh wild flowers, or buy a colorful bouquet.

Whose life will you “brighten up” today?

A single flower’s visage opens worlds of love and memories.

Look what loving power you have!

Why not give yourself a blossom of love as well? You always deserve joy.