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Bonnets & Boots
Today was a true Sunday, a family day, a beach day, a bocci ball day…Easter! Viola wore her Grandmama Judy’s bonnet, sweater, and boots that her mama made for her in 1946. How fun it was to spend the day in the sun dressed in all that finery. “Don’t be afraid to dig in the dirt, play with the worms, and chase the butterflies,” Grandmama Judy would say even in the most delicate of heirlooms….SO Vi spent most of the day in them, laying under a bright banana slug yellow umbrella in the yard while mama & papa played bocci ball and ate chocolate coconut ice cream. Earlier at the beach she kicked around in the Italian mohair boots I knitted for her the Good Friday before. Talk about walking on clouds…my my!

