Happy Mother's DAy

Can you imagine what it's like, after months without a cook, the cook comes back for a day and does the unimaginable? Well I know. I was treated to a dinner of polish sausage, sauer kraut, and potatoes - in the flowered setting of my back yard. And thumbing my nose at the vestiges of an ulcer, I even indulged in a beer! Irises are opening their many colored blossoms, white, yellow, blue, and purples. The unusual buffy colored one has a full bud so it will be open by the end of today. A few red tulips hang on. Columbines - yellow and purple - nod their starry faces in the wind. But they are too delicate to compete against the brilliant red rhododendron which is out in front and far removed to prevent comparison. Long yellow clusters hang from both chain trees and the spirea and snowballs are stark white. They boldly stand up against the red horse chestnut blossoms in my neighbor's back yard. Some day I will send photos with my wise words but for today you will have to go to http://www.sherer.org/mothersflowers.html
Naomi Sherer