Peonies -- Planning for the Little Things
Image by M. Gustafson Gervasi, 2019 Peonies unfolding in the warm sun. June is nearly here. With it a memory dances in my mind. June 1991 and my mother fussed about the peony plants that circled our back deck. Delicate, vibrant, gone too quickly -- her wish was for those flowers to be there for my high school graduation party. Mother nature granted mom her wish. Peonies in full bloom were the backdrop for many photos that day. All of these years later (has it really been 28 years!) those very plants still bloom in June, just in a new location. My mother left her earthly life in February of 2014. Despite her passing in the depths of a Wisconsin winter, I was able to transplant the peonies from the backyard of her ranch home to the flower bed in front of my ranch house. All it took was a simple request from the new owners for me to return when the soil had thawed. With the plethora of how-to books on estate planning, prob...