We met while touring Europe in 1997. Since then, Pat and Phil came to America twice to visit us, first in 2002 and then again in 2010. In between, the four of us have toured the south of England together in 2008. Then in 2012 we flew to Adelaide and toured southeastern Australia and New Zealand with them. Now once again we come together, this time in Edinburgh, to do Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

The Irish Woman's Poppies

Along the way we were stopped by a woman and asked if any of us were strong enough to move a bag of compost for her.  I volunteers and we were soon blessed with the story of her life.  She and her girlfriend migrated here from Ireland forty years ago during the "trouble."  She has two daughters, the older one living on the Isle of Harris and the younger, with down syndrome, living at home.  This rather large poppy was among those in her garden.

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