Honoring My Mother

Peonies were Mother's favorite flower
 

This is my 24th post to my blog, "Memories Captured With A Camera". I created my blog to full-fill a class project this term in my Social Medial Class at South Hills School of Business and Technology.

I would like to honor my mother by sharing just a few of my memories of her.

My mother's name was Lillian. She was a single parent. She taught school. We lived on the farm where she was raised but in a different home than she grew up in. She was one of thirteen children.



Mother, Mary, Cat, Nephew Eddie

Mother at Coney Island
 

Every spring, we would plant a big garden filled with tomatoes, potatoes, corn, green beans, watermelon, and so much more. She taught me how to furrow out a long row so that it was straight and the right depth for the vegetable we were planting.

I loved canned yellow peaches during the winter. We would share taking skins off the hot peaches after they were removed from hot water and then placing the peach halves into quart jars.  Yellow canned peaches looked beautiful on the shelves with other canned vegetables.

As fall approached, it was apple butter making time.  In the early morning, we would start peeling apples. Making apple butter turned out to be an all-day process, lasting well into the evening hours. We would take turns stirring the apple butter in a large kettle over a fire built near the garden's edge. I loved the taste of cinnamon in the apple butter. Mother was generous with the cinnamon when she dropped it into the bubbling apple butter.

Thank you for letting me share some of my fond memories of my mother.  I would love to hear about memories you shared with your mother. Please click on comments and share if you would like to.