In a melancholy mood, hibiscus and days gone by...

Sometimes a walk in the garden takes me back to memories in the far distant past, my grandmother's garden, she, whom I loved so deeply and who has been gone nearly 40 years. A garden seems to connect us still through time and space and today, walking through the garden, the deep red blossoms of the huge Hibiscus moschuetos reminded me of my grandmother and I cried. It is a very tender day...