Lola's Garden

My very good friend, Candi, lost her little chihuahua, Lola, over a year ago.  As anyone who has ever lost a pet can imagine, it was very devastating for Candi. As part of the healing process, she put a different photo of Lola on Facebook every day for a year.

Candi also built a little memorial garden for Lola outside of her bedroom window.  The garden is very pretty with lots of flowers and vines planted around a small stone patio area with a bench.  The memorial garden is next to a very plain wall underneath the bedroom window, so she decided to brighten it up a little with paint. The space that she wanted to paint was approximately 6 feet tall and about 15 feet wide.  Her niece, Taylor, and I were recruited to assist in this art project.  Taylor worked on the grass at the bottom of the wall, while Candi and I began painting vines.  She started her vines on the right and I started mine on the left.  We crossed in the middle and continued on to the other side, so that we had a nice mix of our different vine-painting styles.

We didn't get the early start that we should have, so we were interrupted in the afternoon by a downpour.  This is where we left it

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Candi lives in the Virgin Islands most of the time, so we will have to pick this up where we left off, when she gets back to Florida.  I look forward to seeing the finished product. The plan is to make the vine thicker, then add lots of flowers on the vine and coming up from the grass.  I think it's on its way to being very pretty and a wonderful memorial to Lola's sweet little spirit.