It's two years since Isabel "packed her bags" and moved into "Wascana". Where does the time go? Isabel says that sometimes it feels like 10 years, and yet, she can't believe that she hasn't seen some familiar faces or places for that long as all remain so familiar to her.
This winter has brought the gift of abundant flowers for Isabel's window sill. Amaryllis, roses and daffodils grace the wide sill at the moment. Amaryllis bulbs arrived from friends during the Christmas season.
"Grower Direct" sent dozens of roses to Wascana in January and Mum's family-friend who works at Wascana's Hostel sent a dozen her way. Isabel quickly dispatched four to friends who live on another unit. And Isabel's roses have bloomed for two weeks.
An old friend arrived with a "daffodil plant" along with full recitation of Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud". How is your school memory? Both Mum and her friend had learned the poem by heart in school.
We will endeavour to keep daffodils blooming on Isabel's windowsill until we find them in our own gardens this spring. A phone call to an English friend this week revealed that the daffs are coming through the ground under his roses.
Ah ~ back to the windowsill here in Canada ~ right under our noses.
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