Meeting the Farmers, Old Phone & the Iguana

When we headed out on Friday evening to join our son and his family for dinner, hubby says - "Let's get some strawberries for the boys!"  So, we went across the street to buy them and visited with the flower grower and her son, and I decided to get our daughter-in-law a bouquet of flowers, too.  Of course I had my camera -- what do you think of this Dahlia!  I'm in love with it!

I snapped photos of their buckets of flowers - they were harvesting them to take to the Montavilla Farmers Market on Sunday.

Another bucket with my favorite red ones.

Here are some purple and white and some frilly pink ones.

How's this for modern day.. mom is on the cell phone speaking Hmong to someone while cutting flowers.  :-)

I asked mom her name and I think it was "Kim".. we asked the boys name but I'm sorry I've forgotten it.  He translated for her.  This is the bouquet she was putting together for me.

I walked out in the flower rows to get some close ups of the flowers.. I *love* this one with the yellow petals veined with pink.

This is a wild and wonderful one, red with frilly petals tipped in white.

The warm evening sunlight slanting over the field.

Another shot of this beauty.

And I wanted to show you my antique telephone that Dayle just hung up for me.  My uncle Don made a radio out of an old phone like this for himself and my mother admired it so much, that he made one for her.  I'm not sure if I should admit this, but I remember my grandmother had a phone exactly like this when we visited her farmhouse when I was 6 or 7 years old, after we moved from Oklahoma to Oregon when I was 4 years old.  My mom didn't give things away very often, she was a "keeper" of things.  But she did give this to Dayle and so it's pretty special to us.  It's amazing to me that in my lifetime we've gone from this kind of phone to the iPhone.. which does so many things.

Yesterday after dinner, I cut up the strawberries that we got on Friday and sugared them and chilled them.. then we had them on top of vanilla ice cream.  Of course, I had to add some Hershey's chocolate syrup, because everything is better with chocolate on top.. right?  :-)

And meet "Green Bean".. the name my daughter-in-law, Kristi, gave to their new Iguana.  The habitat home they got for him is the size of a closet, with a sliding glass door on it!  It's big!  She's decorated the inside with flowers and vines so that he feels at home.  :-)  And no.. I did not hold him.  When they let him out of his box when they brought him home I guess he leaped to the floor and it took them 15 minutes to catch him.  Yikes!

We're looking forward to a phone call from my daughter and granddaughters today.  Get this.. the 3 year old asked to call and talk to Grandma!!  She told me many times before they left "Gamma, I'll miss you in Ohio."  Awww.

For those of you who asked how I'm doing since they left.. I guess I'm going through a grieving process.  I think of those little faces and the hugs and the sounds of their voices and choke up and tears come to my eyes.  I am going to have to toughen up.  How do you do that?

I hope you're having a great Sunday... and for you on the other side of the globe, I hope it WAS good! :-)

((hugs)), Teresa :-)