The obituary notice of Joan WALLEY ('Joanie' (nee Meredith))

xXx Happy 73rd Birthday Mum xXx

Last year, an afternoon tea ~ this year, heartache and grief.

Always and forever in my heart and thoughts.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

She was the summer’s last sunflower,
Writing a letter to July,
As though one final correspondence,
Would make an easier goodbye,
But already she could feel them,
The approaching winds of change,
An autumn she would never see,
Both beautiful and strange,
As the heat’s embrace got softer,
She watched the leaves all fall and settle,
And had one last look for love,
Within her few remaining petals,
But though the sun had made a promise,
She knew it was one that he forgot,
As her final petals fell to earth,
He loves me,
He loves me not.

Erin Hanson

despite knowing
they won't be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives

sunflowers ~ rupi kaur

The day we’ve all been dreading has come and gone, a day where we endeavoured to reflect all your love right back. Our only solace lies in you being reunited with your one and only ~ our much beloved dad. We hope that you’re both skipping the ‘light fandango’ once again.

Only ‘in beautiful dreams’ can we now have each other.