Day 41
Today is Hermione's birthday. She would have been 13 and it is nearly 10 years since she mercifully slipped away with pneumonia. After she died, we planted a lemon tree and to celebrate her life, on her birthday we pick the lemons and make lemon curd and give pots of it to people who loved her. We have lemon delicious pudding for dinner and, as every dinner time, light her candle in her special candlestick. It has been raining solidly all day but at dusk Ralph and I walked to Hermione's bench with some roses which we tossed in the lake opposite Hermione's Island where her ashes are buried. A lovely day. 6 km
4 comments:
What a beautiful tribute, Allison -- and such a tender and lovely painting ...
What a wonderful, special idea to plant the lemon tree and enjoy and share its fruit year after year. Your post brought tears to my eyes. I can't imagine what pain it must bring to lose a child.
What a beautiful drawing. And what a wonderful fruit tree to plant in her memory.
Alison what a wonderful tribute, your lemon looked so lovely and the idea of the lemon curd will keep her alive in her friends memories.
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