To me, Mother’s Day is a part of celebrating spring. Motherhood is about nurturing life, and in the springtime it’s hard to miss all of the living creatures bursting forth around us, no matter where we live.

My mother loved flowers, and gardening gave her a lot of enjoyment. Here are some of my iris to help celebrate today, along with a carpenter bee, which barely held still long enough for me to capture an image. Reminds me of someone I know…