Thinking about my mom

Last week I went to the Arboretum and walked around the area where we did a lot of birding with my Mom back in the late 90s.  On the west side there is a little bridge over the stream when you first come out from the tunnel under rt 53.  It was there that I recall we had the best birding.  We saw Yellow Warblers, Red Starts, Palm Warblers, Scarlet Tanagers, Baltimore Orioles, Indigo Buntings and lot of the other migratory birds that spring. It was Meme, Stuart, Diana and I and we had a really nice time together.  I miss my mom!  I looked out at those trees, the bridge, the bushes and the stream and tried to recall details about her: what we said and how we laughed. If I could only go back there for just a moment!