SNAPSHOTS OF SUMMER

How do you pack June, July and August into a post? Sitting on my balcony, overlooking the courtyard, enjoying a wonderful mellow breeze, I'm trying to recall some of the details.






A few weeks ago we had this fantastic view!!



And a gorgeous sunrise the other morning! It was after I took the picture that I read one shouldn't aim the camera directly at the sun, lol! Trust me to click first and then read instructions! Thanks to hubby I've got a new camera which he purchased for me while visiting our son and family in PA in June! I'm learning!



We enjoyed many family visits and the highlight this year was my mother's 90th! Rather than have one huge event we felt it would be best for her to delight in numerous shorter mini-parties throughout the month of August and perhaps into September. Some family members were not able to come yet. That way she would be able to have a leisurely conversation with each one! Her menu of choice for each event you ask??? KFC! We honored her request! Why fuss with an amazing dinner in the heat of summer when you can be practical and respond to her wishes at the same time. Just a little decoration and her favorite flowers of her month - glads!


One of her 16 great-grandchildren presented her with precious artwork and beautiful flowers. Many cards, flowers, balloons and thoughtful gifts arrived and still grace her room!





My dear sis flies in regularly throughout the year to visit our mom and also me! This time she and hubby drove and brought along her daughter with 2 of her children! What a special time we all had together!

Another visit brought some of the other grands and great-grands and we had to wait for nursing staff to get OmaOma, as the kids call her, up with the lift.






After we enjoyed a delicious meal together, we took walks into the lovely gardens of the long-term care centre, we sang some of Oma's favorite hymns for her just standing around the piano, and we sat around and chatted until she felt it was time to return to her room.





Representation was also there from PA. Oma enjoyed Melissa and Delaney's visit and missed Ken and the boys who couldn't come this time.
Evelyn, our second, and her family still had a special time with Oma just before they moved away. (sorry some of these photos are grainy, I took them from facebook!)


Angela, our oldest, who is Oma's first granddaughter, and her family also joined the visit! The tall beautiful teen-age gal is Oma's first great grandchild. And the young handsome man who just turned 12, is the second great grandson.


Oma intently watching how much the little one touched and admired the all the 'pretty flowers'!!! Perhaps this one will have a green thumb like her great grandmother and her great-aunt, yours truly!



Enjoy a snapshot of some of the gorgeous flowers growing in the raised wheelchair accessible garden beds! These beds are assigned every new spring to some of the residents who are still able to tend these gardens independently. Every one of us looks forward to see what will grow this year!







Just a few snapshots of summer!