Pour Maman ( a little from the past)

I wanted to take some special photographs for my mum on mothers day. I will not be by her side, i will not take her out to dinner or share laughter with her at a cafe today. In fact these last two weeks i have brought her some worries for i have been bending her ear with my woes(which seem to have fallen like a heavy storm). So she has to calm my frantic phone calls, melancholy emails and my repeating of the questions what am i to do..and.are we really going to live in a tent(more on that later) She has been as she has always been to me; a cup of chamomile, lavender under my pillow, rain in the time of drought and the sun that has always helped me grow..

I thought i would share with you a post i had written last year about a dress, but truly this post represents the wonderful, stunning loveliness and grace she exudes everyday in every-way.



A few years back my mum had come up from montreal to help me run one of my stores, I had just opened another
on the cape and thought she would enjoy the summer by the beach. My mum took to it very well in fact it i think people just came in to see her. My mum is lovely! anyways one day driving back from the cape i stopped at hanover, that is where my other shop was located. when I walked in I saw my mum in the most beautiful dress. I am immediately said "when did you get that?"her reply was" i made it last night form a tablecloth" she was a vision it would be impossible to describe her in it except to say it was if i was a little girl again looking at my mum and wishing i could be her when i grow up (still do everyday). For years now I have dreamt of that dress, on my last trip to Montreal she let me wear it all over the city and then told me to take it home....now i will never look like her in the dress, but for some reason- the feeling i got when i saw her in it, is the same feeling i get when i am wearing it!