I believe that I titled my very first blog entry "My father late in life".
This photo includes my sister Pam, my mom, and myself. Maybe my brother is taking the picture. From one of my many many trips to Rockford. On the last day, we usually went to a Swedish pancake place near her home. And I would pick up the bill for a good breakfast with plenty of Swedish pancakes and lingonberry.
My mother looks quite frail here so I'm going to place this in 2009. Possibly it was the 2009 Halloween trip when we went out in the country. She looks happy and relaxed. Does not look troubled or worried.
She entered a place where she did not concern herself with the details, did not seem to worry about the future, had abandoned her tight expectations that things had to be done a certain way. And certainly her daughters should act in a certain way. And we always were not meeting standards. Certainly she had that attitude after her fall at xmas time.
She hasn't fallen in this picture (well she certainly HAD fallen several times but that one time which really sent her in a completely different direction), and she has that certain beatific manner about her. She and I were the same height and you can see how she is shrunk. My sister is an inch or so shorter than me but is more likely than me to wear heals.
The reflection is interesting, the cafe is in a residential area. So so Rockford...
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