Flowers and Sunshine.

   I have been taking flowering plants and cut flowers to Eleanor for the past two weeks. Joanne sent a white Amaryllis to her apartment two weeks ago, and and it was beautiful. Several of the nurses aides commented that the white ones aren't seen too often. Eleanor enjoyed watching the plant with it's four white flowers bloom. When it had finished she asked me to get her some daffodils, and tried to remember the poem about "Daffodils" that her mother always recited.She remembered it for the most part:

"I wandered lonely as a cloud

            that floats on high o'er vales and hills,

     When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils,

         Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 

           Fluttering and dancing in the breeze"

 She has been enjoying her daffodils this week, and the Amaryllis  that we had thought was finished, has decided to produce another set of blooms. I would guess by Friday it will be time to bring in new flowers. 

   Eleanor called this afternoon and told me she wanted to sit outside in the courtyard, as everyone has been talking about the beautiful weather we are having. It was a bit windy, but we enjoyed watching the courtyard squirrel finding his buried nuts in the courtyard. I was glad that she decided to get up, get dressed, and leave her room for a change.