November Flowers

This will likely be the last posting for monthly flowers until sometime in the spring of 2012. I had expected that October's flower posting might be the last, but the little Geum's by the back door surprised me by coming back into bloom. Given that it was 16 degrees celsius (62 farenheit) today it is no wonder that the flowers are still blooming, even though you would think that the snowstorm we had a week ago would have put the brakes on.

The other flower in these pictures is an indoor one, a lovely little African Violet. My mother, Ina, always kept African violets and she was a master of them. She had hundreds with all the colours and all the types (single, double, varigated, etc.). When she moved to the seniors' residence in 2005 she took a few of her favourites with her. By 2007 when she moved to a nursing home, she had just one left. In January of 2010, Mom passed away and this last African Violet came to Ottawa with me. Last year when we moved to Nova Scotia, we brought it with us. Its bloom this week is the first one it has had since my mother died. I think it is telling us how much she likes the house, the gardens, the town and the Firehouse we are building. I know Mom would be right in her element here and she feels close.