Pink-flowering currant

Today is my late mother's birthday. I always thought it was neat that her birthday is so close to my father's, just three days apart. And that my birthday is also close to theirs, just a week before.

The photograph I am including with today's entry was taken three years ago, almost to the day - March 6, 2007. I remember coming home from a class I was taking and noticing that the afternoon light was perfect as it shone on this beautiful flowering shrub, a California native called the Pink-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum 'Claremont'). My mother had passed the autumn before; I think she would have loved how this currant is in full flower every year now on her birthday.