whisper white memories

I took this picture of the dogwood blooms at my mom's a couple of weeks ago. My dad dug up the tree out of the woods and planted in their yard about 10 years ago. The tree is very special to me, since he is gone now. It was gorgeous this year, even mom's neighbors were over to take pictures.

I took this picture this morning. The first blooming bearded iris in my yard. This one has huge blooms and is just beautiful. I can't wait for the others to strut their stuff later on.

I guess most of you know my SCS name is iris. Let me tell you how this name evolved. My dad died in 1999 of congestive heart failure, less than 2 weeks later my brother, my only sibling, Troy died from Glioblastoma multiforma, brain cancer. He went through some really bad times with this cancer after his surgery, seizures, paralysis, he couldn't talk, it was unbearable. The song "Iris" by the Goo-Goo dolls was played at his memorial service. When we got home from Springfield, MO. where he lived, we pulled into the driveway and there was a single white iris blooming in my flower bed, the only flower blooming. As you can probably guess, I lost it, after I composed myself I was in awe.

It was as if my brother was telling me it would be OK and he's here, ya know?

Irises have been my favorite flower ever since, especially white irises.

Yikes, I didn't mean for this be so depressing, I hope you didn't mind me putting it all out there, but I saw this iris this morning and it brought back memories....whisper white memories.