My mother loved geraniums because they were so hardy, easy to keep, and forever colourful. I always have them on the deck of the cottage, and think of her often!
My mother was a beauty! She had a brunette colouring, different from me, and always loved clothes when she
grew up.She grew up in New Brunswick,
She was a country girl with the love of the city life for years. She moved to the Virgin Islands when she was 50 years old, opened a bar, and served the first lobster sandwiches in the BVI.
She said that her love of lobster had led her to order a small lobster sandwich when shopping in
Buffalo in the 50s. It was served ona hotdog bun.
When she opened her bar on the shores of Cane Garden Bay, she started serving the sandwich but on a much larger scale, and so incredibly yummy that people came from far and wide to have them, along with her great rum punches and pin colados.
She wined and dined a lot of people in her business there, one of which was Jimmy Buffet, while he was young an wild on his first Savannah Jane. But that's another story.
She lived a life that many of us dream of, on an island in the Caribbean, on the beach no less.
She passed away at the age of 94. I wish I had spent more time with her now. She was formidable!
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