As most of you know my beloved hubby passed on April 27th. My girls and I and our new kitten and my dog took a trip to the mountains of North Carolina to spread his ashes. In a place he loved and spent many wonderful times with both of his families the one before me and the one after.
Tuesday was a rainy day ...and it seemed all my tears came back to me that day we would have been married 7 years.
My oldest daughter had never been to Cherokee before even tho my girls and I were headed there 11 years ago but the car didn't make it.So it was a promise kept to them that I made in August of 1998 and kept this year. I will be posting photos of the trip and if you have never seen the mountains of North Carolina in the fall they will make you want to go.
One place we visited that John and I loved is the Old Farm Museum that the NPS has it is old farm buildings rescued and moved there so others can see how life used to be. the strange and funny thing was this year a sculpture had been added to a barn there of a old man ...well not really the whole man ,,,his beautiful blue eyes surrounded by glasses, fuzzy gray eyebrows and fuzzy gray mustache. Looked so much like my hubby it caught me off guard. Don't know how long it has been there...but was just eery having him watching. and the thing is this was one of the places I felt John's presence most ...and missed him the most.
3 comments:
So bittersweet revisiting such a beautiful place without John. So happy that your daughters and pets were able to join you.
yes it was...the girls want to go back again next year. not sure yet if we will ....
blessings
Lorri, Gezzy got a wonderful home!! And Winston looks happy too! So glad you got to go and even though it was bittersweet - at least you went. Thanks for the pics of Gezzy and Winston - no doubt they are doing wonderfully!
Hope to see you again soon.
~Sally
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