Mother's Day

When my mother died over 15 years ago, a neighbor told me: "For awhile your picture of her will be as she was at the end of her life, but later you'll remember her as she was when she was younger." This seems to be true. This picture is how I remember her now, as she looked in the mid-1950s. I think I took that picture with the family's little Kodak box camera.

Mother disapproved of Mother's Day. She considered it an occasion for consumerism (not that she would have have used that language.) "It was invented by the florists," she said.