Re-membering… 22/04/10

my Gram Gram on Earth Day and every day. Today would have been my Gram’s 104th birthday! She passed after a long life and at the ripe ole age of 97 back in 2003. She is missed and dearly loved.

I’ve posted this poem in her honor before, but today I also honor Earth Day and her birthday. She loved her garden. She loved the outdoors and getting her hands dirty with our Earth. The photos above are of me and Gram in her beautiful garden when I was a baby and of Gram in her garden with all of the beautiful flowers.

She worked and enjoyed hours and hours of time in her garden. The sun on her back and her hands in the dirt. A true lover of beautiful things. In her honor and memory a poem by Linda Lee Elrod…

“Grandma and me”

I loved my grandma’s garden,
especially in the spring…
She’d plant some seed
and then she’d show me how!

The sweet anticipation
those times with her would bring
are cherished in my memory, even now.
We’d check each bloom and blossom,
my little hands in hers,
as side by side
we’d walk down every row.

Deciding what we ought to pick
and take into the house…
and what to simply leave in place to grow.

But looking back, I realize now
it wasn’t plants and such
that made those times as sweet as they could be…

It was the time I spent with her
that meant so very much…
That precious time with just
“Grandma and me.”

-Linda Lee Elrod

All my love Gram Gram…