Today would have been my mother's 84th birthday. She passed away on January 12 of this year:
Mom at Ocean World late 1970's
Peggy didn't make a big deal out of her birthday--but she did other people's. On April 9th she'd acknowledge that yes, it was her birthday but also her niece Patti as well as (now my memory fails me) deceased dear friend from childhood. It was their birthday, too. She was really, really good at remembering birthdays and anniversaries and such.
I've been sifting through the mountainous pile of photographs in my mother's collection trying to cull the most suitable for her remembrance service at Maple Lake this August 25.* Most of them are from a time before I was born so though they are indeed photos of Peggy, they are not pics of the woman I knew as 'Mom.' This one is however very much how I remember my mother.
Notice the camera on her wrist? Ubiquitous when we went somewhere. :)
*Tentatively--still need to firm it up
The photos here are but a fraction of the many my mother took (there are a few exceptions--obviously, the ones with her in them, for example). My mom loved to shoot snapshots of her family and friends. I remember sometimes getting impatient for her to hurry up and get it over with. I was shortsighted where she was not. I will be forever grateful to her for preserving memories that would otherwise be lost to us. On January 12 of this year my mom died at the age of 83. She spent a great deal of time with my Dad at Maple Lake so we will have a remembrance gathering at Maple Lake for her on Wednesday, August 25, 2011. We still have many photographs from her collection to sort through and we have her to thank for the privilege of doing so.
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