Girl with a wreath, by Lobachev Vladamir. Via Wikimedia Commons.
The Gifts
April’s garden fraught with scent,
Spring’s gift until the blooms spent.
The jewels of nature, flora crown,
Bespeak a world of grace renown.
(April 28, 1990)
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Virginia Gambardella lives in New York, only three miles from where she grew up. Her dad was a naval engineer and adventurer, and her mom, who sometimes called her “lamb’s lettuce” was a dressmaker for Bergdorf Goodman. Virginia has one son and three grandchildren and enjoys: people, holidays, antiques, nature, gardening, fishing, decorating, fashion, sharing knowledge, cooking and baking. She’s a cancer survivor, a pancreatitis survivor, a widow, and the re-inventor of her life, “as necessary.”
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