FriedaBiscus

The Hybiscus is blooming beautiful bright orange flowers today. It brings me such joy to look out the window and see them and also to drive into the driveway and see them from the street. I will always think of Mother when I look at that bush for three reasons. One, when she was temporarily in Gulf Care Nursing Home one year ago, we were visiting outside near a hybiscus, and we couldn't remember the name of the bush. We finally remembered and proceeded to come up with a way to always remember...We pretended to be greeting the bush by saying, "HI Biscus!" Two, we were waiting outside of the radiation therapy room at MD Anderson when a volunteer offered Mom a free bag to hold her "stuff" in. Mom carefully examined all of the bags and picked the brightest orange one because of its durability. Three, she loved beauty and color. I miss her so much. The bush was given to the family at the time of her death by my friends at NOVA Chemical. I named it FriedaBiscus.