Memorial Day

We all took a moment on Monday, to pay tribute to our loved ones, by visiting the cemetery.  Harrington has a beautiful cemetery and it is especially so on Memorial Day weekend.  Folks come from far and wide to decorate the graves.   I love walking around the cemetery, remembering friends and family that have gone before us.  It's especially meaningful when my parents join us.  So many names I have heard through out my lifetime, come back to life with the stories that my parents recount of their memories.

Harrington has the most beautiful cemetery.

As promised, here are a few photos of the progress made at Alicia's place.  Roni Jo and David returned to Boston on Tuesday, back to their stimulating careers, thankful that they can make green energy deals and treat patients with sore knees and backs, instead of picking up rocks in the fields or digging out gobs of ground cover!  We call it "farmcentive".  Keep working hard at what you love, because there are always more rocks to pick!

Before...

and after....

This bed was a mess and now looks so much better.

As was this one!

Roni trimmed up the shrubs and built this little path through to Alicia's garden.

The planted garden.  Grow seeds grow!

Tools of the trade.

And we finished the day with dinner on the porch, enjoying a warm, quiet evening together as a family who loves the memory of the past and looks forward to the promise of the future, and appreciates the joy of today.

Wine on the porch as the sun set.  Roni and David have a set of these custom engraved wine glasses.  Les LePere did the design, which was part of their wedding invitation.

Grandpa chatting it up with Roni and David and Alicia and Baxter having a moment!

Grandma and Reynald.  Grandma is kind of tired like the rest of us were that night!

Even Baxter was all tuckered out!  Going.....

going........

gone!

A satisfying and productive day, capped off with another gorgeous sunset.