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Helen and Sophia

girl asleep in chair — The birds have all flown. But traces remain. Sophia looking in on Helen’s dream? Or less charitably, nosing Helen awake so she can reclaim the chair.

Robin

twenty-something

Robin

Eva's watch station.

Sophia Exeunt

Sophie died five years ago today. We’d been on our morning walk. Back at the house she died.

dog hole

She lay in state for the day in her nest next to the window.

Friends came to visit, say one last goodbye. Tears were shed.

Sophie went the distance, she was almost 16.

We buried her at sunset, planted a quercus robur on top her grave.

This photo was taken November 17, 2015, the last made while she was alive.

anniversary

my parents married September 18

Emma Gray

3 EG’s. Learning about the Animals

family

father son grandson — .

Gardener

according to the season she loved to burn and loved to grow.

I own a solace shut within my heart,
A garden full of many a quaint delight
And warm with drowsy, poppied sunshine; bright,
Flaming with lilies out of whose cups dart
Shining things
With powdered wings.–Amy Lowell Behind a Wall 1912

Robin

girl in hat in desert — Artist in the Desierto de Chihuahua, land of social distance.

Bill

Rotarian, rider, country-boy — sun and moon and stars