On another dismal-drizzle-dank day Jackie, despite feeling rather unwell, insisted on driving me to Ferndene Farm Shop for some salad items and a few other provisions.
Perhaps in search of sunnier times, this afternoon I posted https://derrickjknight.com/2022/03/03/a-knights-tale-109-ferry-across-the-solent/
I was about to scan four more illustrations to Bleak House by Charles Dickens, but am now keeping them over until tomorrow, because I have just received
a very touching e-mailed photograph from Lavinia Ross of Salmon Brook Farms.
She and her husband, Rick, planted a Western Incense Cedar in memory of my son Michael upon his death in February 2019. When my mother died last October Lavinia encircled this tree with daffodil bulbs dedicated to Michael’s grandmother and to his own mother who had died in September 1965.
They are experiencing similar weather to us in Oregon, so, perhaps appropriately, the daffodils have bowed their heads.
This evening we dined on more of Jackie’s chicken and vegetable stewp with fresh crusty bread, and neither of us imbibed.