Me in Bath, England this past Spring when Ian took me to meet his mum for the very first time. We had a lovely visit, received her blessing and sadly, she passed several months after from cancer.
We could have been great friends.
That very pretty bull terrier in the picture is Blanche. Since Ian's mum was not well and in a retirement home we stayed with a wonderful couple in a 160 YO manor house with amazing gardens right down the lane. The inn keepers treated us like family, even letting me loose in the shrubbery with pruning shears
I have some columbine and allium, bred from their 30+ years of gardening, growing in my garden in NC.
I named my favorite buff orpington hen Heather, after Ian's mum because she is such a proper English lady and Ian's mum always wished for chickens of her own.