Mother's Day

I know I published a vase of flowers on Friday but I make no apologies for publishing another one today.  Another lovely bunch of flowers for Ann, this time from Emma, a mother herself of course.

Today is the one day in the year when we make a fuss of our mothers, the rest of the year they are ignored (not really)! Now another commercial festival loved by greeting card makers/sellers, flower sellers and eateries.

Having said that I think it is a nice idea to celebrate motherhood, where would we be without them?  https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3700424

I found this interesting article on t'net:


Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, whose mother had organized women’s groups to promote friendship and health, originated Mother’s Day. On May 12, 1907, she held a memorial service at her late mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia. Within five years virtually every state was observing the day, and in 1914 U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday. Although Jarvis had promoted the wearing of a white carnation as a tribute to one’s mother, the custom developed of wearing a red or pink carnation to represent a living mother or a white carnation for a mother who was deceased. Over time the day was expanded to include others, such as grandmothers and aunts, who played mothering roles. What had originally been primarily a day of honour became associated with the sending of cards and the giving of gifts, however, and, in protest against its commercialization, Jarvis spent the last years of her life trying to abolish the holiday she had brought into being.



https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mothers-Day