Saturday, August 7, 2010

Flowers for You Today

More cut Zinnias today. This photo also shows some of my 'decorating' skills with several small cars and tiny antique pitchers. The flowers are in one of my mom's favorite vases, a chartreuse swirled art glass vase dating to the 1930s. There are tiny pieces of amber swirled into the variegated cream, pale and dark green glass.  A cowl-lamp from my grandmother's black Model T can be seen in the upper right. All of these items are on a piece of oval plate glass, the rear window of another family car from the 1920s. I have several flat pieces of glass like this, used on bureau tops or small tables like this that were once rear windows of antique cars.

B T W : 
August 7th, 1918
Today would have been my Mom's 92nd birthday. She died in 1999, but I still make a nice meal and toast her on her birthday, as I do on what would have been my Dad's birthday. I don't celebrate holidays generally, or my own birthday, but I feel better remembering my parents on their birthdays. This photo was taken in Tokyo in 1955 where my Dad was stationed for a few years.

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  1. HAPPY BIRTHDA CASEYS' MOM. YOU LEFT BEHING ONE GREAT SON. THANKS FOR SHARING.

    GRANNY

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  2. DADS' CAN'T BE LEFT OUT SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CASETS' DAD, ALSO.

    GRANNY

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  3. What a wonderful way to celebrate a life. I'm stealing your idea. I can't think of a better way to do it.

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  4. thanks. PX: you may have the idea, don't steal it, lol. She died in June of '99 and when that first birthday came up in August of '99, it just didn't seem right to not celebrate it in some way, as we had for the 42 years I'd been alive. I didn't want to get all Norman Bates about it, lol, so i just cooked something new that she would have liked, like I usually did. The next year, i did the same thing, and then my tradition was born. I don't set the table or do anything extreme, just something like baked shrimp, anything that's not my normal daily dinner, and it just feels right. My dad too, although in his case, I usually make one of his trademark meals, he was a great cook.

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  5. DID YOU NOTICE TWO MORE MISTAKES. MY TRADEMARK. IN MY DEFENSE, I DO NEED NEW GLASSES AND I DO HAVE FINGERNAILS THAT NEED TO BE CUT. THERE I FEEL BETTER. I KNOW. GET ON WITH IT AND FORGET THE MISTAKES.LOL

    GRANNY

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  6. don't worry about the mistakes, ever! i read right through them and i'm sure everyone else does too. : )

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  7. Happy Birthday to your Mother Casey! She was a very pretty lady! As a mother myself, I know that how you celebrate her life would bring her immense joy! I should be so lucky to have my children remember me this way someday. She was blessed to have you as a son.
    mare

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  8. thanks, Mare. "we're" having pecan stuffed shrimp tonight! i've had nothing but tomato sandwiches for a week, not that i'm complaining! but tonight will be a good change, and i'll have enough for tomorrow and monday, lol.

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