Thursday, June 30, 2011

A Viewing

A friend's mother died at 86 this past weekend, so I attended the viewing yesterday. She was perfectly healthy and driving about until February when she discovered she had advanced pancreatic cancer. I decided to order sympathy flowers online and have them delivered to the funeral home. I was quite pleased with the process, it even prompted me to choose an appropriate message from its own list, should I be short of the right words (which I was). Here is the orchid arrangement I chose:



The deceased had surviving siblings including a 96 year old surviving brother who apparently still bowls! It seems that so much of the entire family had not gathered together for some time. Fortunately or unfortunately, it takes a funeral to bring people together.

6 comments:

Valerie-Jael said...

Too true! Lovely flowers, though! Valerie

Mikko Tyllinen said...

Beautiful!

Anonymous said...

thats so true,, beautiful flowers

Icy BC said...

That is a beautiful arrangement! Besides the "I'm sorry," I don't know what else to say.

Kay said...

They look like dendrobiums and they are really gorgeous! It was such a beautiful offering to send them. Sigh.... at my age, 86 still sounds young.

Kathy G said...

What a beautiful arrangement!