Garden Chick photos
  • Home
  • ✴ GC Academy ✴
  • Classes & Services
  • GC Blog
  • Photo Album
  • Contact
  • Create a No Fuss Garden Video Series

The Gift of an Apron

August 6, 2012 By Karen Creel

Share Button
This Apron is My Gift to You,

My grandmother said to me.

Woven with truth and Women’s Power
It is Your Legacy
I reached across my grandmother’s apron
And touched her gnarled hand,
and felt the soul’s of all women
who’s courage forged this land.
I thanked her softly for my present,
In tears, and filled with pride,
           I greeted the shadows of aproned women,
     walking by my side.
            Gwen Peterson, excerpted from the Legacy
         in “Leaning into the Wind”
I saw this poem in an article in MaryJanes Farm magazine and immediately thought of my grandmother. I cannot ever remember her without an apron, and after she died I found one at my mother’s home.  I asked if I could have it and keep it tucked away in a drawer now.  I brought it out when I did a craft show, and had many comments from women who remembered their grandmothers wearing one.  Aprons are making a come back now, and I think we women should share them with our daughters and granddaughters.
  What a great addition to a bridal gift basket or for a cook.  Add vintage cookbooks, recipe cards, and old cooking tools.  A gift that I am sure would bring back memories.
 Karen

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Apron, grandmother's apron

« Blue Ridge and Elijay Georgia
Christmas Poinsettas and cookies »

facebook   Instagram   Pinterest   contact me



We promise not to send weeds (or spam). Plus, receive my FREE ebook on attracting beneficial insects to your garden!

Follow my Blog!

Enter your email address to follow my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 96 other subscribers

Recent Posts

  • Tired of Paying High Prices for Salad Greens? Grow Your Own Salad Garden January 30, 2023
  • Looking For Simple Tips to Grow A Successful Vegetable Garden? January 23, 2023
  • Seed Packet Christmas Ornaments December 17, 2022
  • Christmas Herbs: Rosemary December 16, 2022
  • How Do You Care for a Christmas Cactus? December 12, 2022
  • Give the Gift of a Garden November 25, 2022
  • Tips for Managing Your Garden During the Winter November 20, 2022
  • How to Care for Fall Mums November 9, 2022
  • Growing Herbs November 5, 2022
  • Bottle Trees For the Garden November 1, 2022

Archives

Categories

Garden Chick, copyright 2003 - current date. All Rights Reserved.
Wordpress website created by Cherie