Back in LA caring for Mom

 

I'm back in LA caring for my mom again while we continue the process of getting her into memory care. We had hoped she would qualify for assisted living, but she doesn't. She forgets a lot, but she always remembers to remind me every evening that it's time for ice cream drenched in chocolate sauce! And she smiles and laughs a lot.

She asked me to donate my dad's clothes, but I'm going to hold onto this shirt that I made for him more than 40 years ago. I was in a seminole patchwork phase, and that was before the introduction of rotary cutters and clear rulers! I had to cut all those long narrow strips by marking the cloth with a yardstick and pencil and then cutting with scissors.

I used a soft cotton twill fabric and it's gotten even softer over almost half a century.

The colors match the cliffs and ocean near their home on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

I've been getting out most days to walk down to the cliffs over Lunada Bay. Yesterday I saw a group of about 20 pelicans fly past over the water. 

The bay looks like a paradise, but over the years it had been overtaken by an aggressively territorial local surfer gang called the Lunada Bay Boys that resulted in a recently settled lawsuit. There's even a movie about the Bay Boys starring Nicolas Cage, "The Surfer," that came out last year. Here's an interesting article about the Bay Boys: Lunada_Bay_Boys

 I've also been enjoying the flowers on my neighborhood walks.

This is a patch of white poppies.

Bird of paradise is common in the yards here.

This bottlebrush tree is in my mom's front yard.

The prevalent rose color here is white, but I also saw a delicate pink rose bush yesterday.

And this is the view from the patio of the local Starbucks!

Have a colorful day