Hugs.

I'm using my cowslips user icon in memory of a Mother's Day tradition I created. Through most of my childhood, each Mother's Day I would go down into the woods near our home, dig up a clump of wildflowers (always following the Audubon rule of that time -- only taking specimens of plants that I could see at least 25 more of within a circular radius), and transplant the flowers into the flower bed on the north side of the house as a Mother's Day gift. The cowslips were the only ones that never survived. No surprise; the soil simply wasn't wet enough. Imagine my delight when I moved to Toad Woods and found cowslips growing in my pond.

The trillium, jack-in-the-pulpit, and Solomon seal thrived, still strong most of 50 years later when we were selling the house. I transplanted trillium and jack-in-the-pulpit from that flower bed to Toad Hall in the mid-1980s. They did well there until the neighbor's garage that was shading both plants was torn down in the mid-1990s and I didn't transplant them in time to a spot they could at least tolerate.

Aw, what a lovely picture! *hugs*

Blessings to her - and to you, love.

*hugs you hard*

T'was...okay. Mother's Day is always crazy round here. I generally try to NOT celebrate it. Case in point - tis my special day...and my boyos upped the ante on the Crazy round here. Yeesh.

*Laughs quietly*

Hugs to you.

*hugs*

Happy Mother's Day, belatedly ♥