flowers for papa

• spring comes late here or at least nights with no frost
• we generally plant our gardens after May 15
• last year as papa hubby got weaker and
• finally he could only walk out
• on to the balcony
• I wanted to brighten the corner where he was
• but it was too early for bedding plants
• and I did not have time to go anywhere
• to find bedding plants already in flower
• nor could I even bring the planters in at night
• to keep them from freezing
• and I could not leave dear papa alone
• so I could walk to our local stores
• so I decided to do plastic flowers and
• got a ride to our local dollar store and
• Miss Ashley stayed home with papa
• and I bought flowers in many colors
• and Ashley got the scissors and
• we planted the flowers for papa
• he loved them- we had every color of the rainbow
• and we were able to fill our planters
• with joyful plastic flowers
• this was one of our miracles
• that God blessed us with----
• the flowers are still there in the planters
• and we have been blessed
• with colors all winter long
• -I remember the day our doctor cried
• because I wanted to take papa on a trip
• not long, not far but some where
• and the doctor said
• take him to his balcony and
• let him hear the birds sing
• bring the grass to him
• and let him feel the earth one more time
• and then the doctor
• told us how sorry he was not to be
• able to help papa go past our balcony
• thank God for plastic flowers
• and then God sent us two birds
• papa made a lot of birdhouses
• and feeders but for the first
• time a mama bird came and made
• a nest in one of papa's houses
• and we would sit very quiet
• as she bird and he bird
• would sing love songs to each other
• and the grass grew green
• it was wonderful taking
• trips out to the balcony with papa
• it was a wonderful spring
• filled with
• blessings and miracles

hugs from Meme