New Pics - May 12, 2006 - Breakfast At The Park

[TAWhatley]

Originally Posted by AZWhitefeather

Wonderful pictures of your feathered friends Terry & beautiful rose bushes.
Reminds me of when I lived in Van Nuys many, many years ago.
My Mother loved her rose bushes. Such wonderful fragrances. Cindy

Thanks, Cindy .. One thing I miss from my childhood is lilac bushes .. my grandparents had both white and violet colored ones .. so lovely to look at and to smell. Apparently they don't grow well here in So Cal .. I have never seen any in the nurseries .. my grandmother also had irises which I totally love and tulips .. that was in Northwest Kansas many decades ago, but I remember these things as if it were yesterday. They also had cherry trees which were wonderful. The blossoms are so beautiful, and then we would pick the cherries and Grandma would pit them and make cherry pies and cherry tarts .. sorry for being a bit maudlin here ..

Terry

[Lin Hansen]

Terry (and Cindy too),

I enjoyed reading of your memories....it made me think of my own. My father did not have a lot of practical skills, but he sure had a green thumb when it came to growing things. I remember he had such a variety of things planted in our backyard...we had lilac, forsythia, pussy willow, rose of sharon, roses...all kinds of flowering trees and shrubs. He always took great pride in the appearance of our home...

Linda

[Maggie-NC]

Down memory lane......

Both my parents were 92 when they died (about 5 years apart) and had been married for 60+ years. One year, when they both were in their 70's, my father, in the fall, planted daffodils on a bank at the back of their home. My mother could see this from a kitchen window. In the spring when the daffodils started to come up, she saw he had planted them in her name - Ruth.

I hope you can see this. It is an old photo. And, thanks for the memories.

[TerriB]

Terry, lilacs need more cold weather to keep them happy. Where I live they are just finished blooming and the irises are just starting. Your area grows the hot weather plants to perfection! Mmmmm, cherry pie!

Maggie, what a lovely, romantic gesture by your father!

[Lin Hansen]

Maggie,

What a beautiful picture....thanks for sharing. Your dad must've been one special guy!!!

Linda

[Garye]

They seemed to have worked. I keep hearing all sorts of stories about husbands and wives who did special things like that (planting flowers in a name formation) for each other but you rarely hear about things like that now. I've heard stories about when one dies the other doesn't live much longer because they die of a broken heart.

I can't understand why marriages aren't like that anymore. I keep wondering what kept those people together and devoted to each other for so long back then. I have so many friends who are divorced now - some nasty divorces too. I don't get it. How come old folks stay together longer than young folks?

Maybe I should ask the pigeons. They seem to stay together for life. So they must be doing something right.

[mr squeaks]

THANKS, Maggie!

OBVIOUSLY, your parent's marriage was/is a model for your own! Like begets like! You are very fortunate!

Garye... different times, ideas, place, morals, ideals. Many do not have the "for better or worse" and "life-time" committment to communicate and work things out that may have been more prevalent yesteryear...

Too much technololy can also give a skewed and unrealistic look at things...

[Maggie-NC]

Thank you. They were very special people.