I was sad not to be able to attend her memorial service on Wednesday in Indianapolis. (I will be traveling there the end of May.) Yet the Lord enabled me to mourn and reminiscence through peaceful previously scheduled activities here in the Pacific Northwest....events that I think would please Angie. 
On Tuesday evening I was working in my little backyard garden, thinking of Angie and my Indianapolis family when I realized I was hearing a lovely chirping somewhere high in the neighbor's tree. It took awhile to pinpoint the singing as it was flitting through the branches but then I spotted a little bird atop the swaying tree....It was as though Angie had come to happily announce that she was free from her crippling and could soar to wherever she wanted to go....she came to checkout the PNW and Grandma G's garden....
On Wednesday, four of us ladies from Creekside Estates drove to the town of Silverton, OR. We ate lunch at the Creekside restaurant which sat on a cliff at the edge of a clear, full creek.... 
Later we drove and walked a short hike to view beautiful Silver Falls....
Friday and Saturday I was blessed to view magnificent Mt. Hood while I attended a ladies' retreat near the base of the mountain.....
And purchased....
An angel solar light for the entrance to my backyard garden....
In remembrance of and love for niece, Angie......
"Goodbye for now, Sweet Angie. I love you! We will meet again in the Lord's presence to hang out forever!"
This has been a good, though grieving, "garden of remembrance of Angie" day in the life of Grandma G.
"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies'." (John 11: 25)
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