My mother's husband Enver -- a wonderful gardener and activist for green spaces in Toronto where they lived for many many years, has created this beautiful green and living memorial for his wife and my mother, Jeanette. He petitioned to have a sugar maple tree planted along the public walkway (where he walks every day) and added a plaque at the bottom of the tree in honor of her. How awesomely romantic is that? The tree will be such a source of pleasure for people for years to come, providing sweet sticky helicopter seeds in the spring, green shade in the summer, and fiery leaves in the fall. Just so happy to see this...and hope I can get up there before too long to visit.
Midori Snyder is the author of nine books for children and adults, published in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition....
