OMG my partner sent me photos of parts of my quilt......I am so excited, she embroidered blocks
love the dragonfly and butterfly but what really caught my eye was the Red Cardinal. See cardinals hold a special place in my heart.
So if you all will bear with me,
I'll tell a story about why the cardinal is special to me.
Growing up, My mom's mother was always there. When I was 2-3yrs old, my parents lived upstairs from my grandparents. Mom was an early to bed/early to rise type person but grandma was a late night person
like me. So mom would put me to bed, I would sleep for a bit then get up around 11pm, sneak down stairs and pull the "hassock" (ya'll remember those? for those that dont, it is what New Englanders used to call ottomans) up close to the TV, turn it down low so no one caught us
and watch re-runs of the original Hawaii 5-O .....She was my best friend, we had a great bond. As we both grew older, she ended up living with my parents, then I ended up living with parents again after my divorce. My son got to meet and grow up a little with my grandma. I took care of her then, took her to dr appts, made sure she ate..etc. Once I was sitting at kitchen table working on my physics homework....she came over and looked over my shoulder and said "wow that all looks greek to me", I busted out laughing, cause in physics we use greek letters to represent the variables in the equations....so technically it was all greek. We both laughed over that.
She used to have a HUGE christmas cactus in a large pot on the floor, with one in a hanging basket over it.....she was always surprised that the hanging basket would suddenly sprout different colors....I finally fessed up that every time my son would knock off leaves from the bottom one I would poke it in the top
Well my gran adored cardinals, she had 2-3 bird feeders out her window, she kept food in them all the time. Would constantly gripe about the squirrels stealing the food
There were 2-3 cardinal families that hung out in our yard for years. She had cardinal shirts, blankets, pillows, etc.
When she passed, my neice was only 3-4yrs old. And while over visiting my parents we heard her talking at the window. We asked her what was going on, and she pointed out in the yard, I was talking to granny. There was a pretty cardinal hanging out there.
So for me, every time I see a cardinal, I think of my gran, they are truly special to me. I dont hunt them out, which means when they suddenly appear it is more special.
And side note, after gran passed, I broke off and repotted some of her christmas cactus for everyone in the family. Mine would only bloom on my birthday in march and mothers day. When I moved from NM to MA, I had to leave my christmas cactus behind, my best friend took it and is babying it. Got a text photo from her on my Birthday this past month....there was one bloom on the cactus....
So thank you LJDugas, that truly made my day to see that photo.
Hugs cant wait to see the rest!