All Creatures

last moments

a garden goodbye

my sweet Georgia Puppy died that April, I worked on her memorial garden. A statue of Saint Joseph, miniature gardenia bushes, a white picket fence. And the finishing touch—a lily, planted in the earth right over where my 14-year-old Lab-chow-golden mix was buried. I felt lost without Georgia. So did my Weimaraner, Jasmine, who kept searching for her playmate..

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