Well, those hospice people know their stuff. Bev passed away last night....a bit after midnight. Dave went to the house to wait with the night nurse and Nick for the funeral home to pick up the body. The hospice nurse had already been by to declare the time of death. We are relieved that her passing was gentle. She was such a brave woman and endured this illness with as much decorum as humanly possible. I only hope I can face such a crisis with the same strength, but hopefully such a thing will not be in my future. Dave, his brother and his step sister spent the day with Nick going over things, I met up with them at noon, we met with the undertaker, wrote the obituary, sifted through pictures to use at the service. Good to have close family in these situations, the burden becomes a blessing.
To paint or not to, on such a day. The therapy aspect was needed, so I went with another small 5inch square, another pre-colored canvas. I chose bananas and did them quick....only a few colors on the palette. When we were in Michigan last week at my brother's I photographed all the produce in his kitchen. On the day we left we stopped over to say goodbye, and his wife had made banana bread. I'm most certain these were the bananas, as they looked just about ready for bread when I had photographed them days before. I left out those ripening spots, creative license. If Bev could edit the pictures of herself, she would leave out the cancer ravaged ones near the end. When we compare those to the ones just a year earlier....it's amazing, but she was a beautiful human being in either case.
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