5/14

A rainy day for Mother's Day. Michael took me out for breakfast at our favorite little coffee shop, "Rebecca's". We sat by the window and watched dogwood blossoms float down the street and around the corner. Legend has it George Washington spent the night in this same little red wooden building. One of the things I love most about New England is the rich history here. I often ask Michael to indulge me in visits to little church side grave yards. Churches that have names like "First Congregational of Hopkinton" or "St. Ann's by the Sea". So many stories are told there, silently told there, inscriptions on moss covered stones that lean today but will someday cover the grave they mark like a lush green blanket. On our way back home after breakfast we stopped when we noticed this little stone building with a unique eye-brow dormer in the Hopedale Cemetary. As we were leaving I spied this incredible Beech tree and asked Michael to pull over. I wanted to take a few pictures, but as luck would have it, my camera batteries gave up the ghost (sorry, sometimes I can't help myself!). I decided to go ahead and shoot blind hoping I still had enough juice left to capture an image. It worked. I want to go back tomorrow and perfect the composition though so I guess this post is just a big commercial free preview of a shot you will get to see in my next post. We've got ourselves a cliff hanger!
But back to Mother's Day...The photo on the left is my oldest daughter, Maple. The picture on the right is my youngest daughter, Becca. The girls came by to make an enchilada dinner in my honor tonight. I couldn't love them any more if I tried.
Happy Mother's Day to all!