Endings and Beginnings

A peony emerges through a
patch of Forget-me-nots

Deadheading thousands
of daffodils

A lot has happened in the weeks since my last posting. Many different kinds of flowers and trees have bloomed and lost their flowers, my father was put into hospice and passed away, and we closed on our new (71-year-old) home.

Today I spent a glorious warm spring day caging 20 of the peony bushes on the property. It's going to be quite the show compared to the 3 peony bushes I had in Boulder. One of my favorite sights in Spring is how peonies emerge from winter by sending up fingers of leaves from the earth. Given my father's pending funeral, I thought the peonies peaking out around bunches of Forget-me-nots was particularly poignant.

When the peonies were tended to, I deadheaded thousands of daffodils. They were so abundant and short lived. Even the snowstorm of Magnolia petals on the front yard reminded me of losing my father. Celebrating a fully lived joyful life while at the same time mourning his loss.

Magnolia blossoms