The Color of Heaven Series [02] The Color of Destiny by Julianne MacLean

Author:Julianne MacLean
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: love, destiny, Alzheimer's, abortion, Romance, adoption, teenage pregnancy
ISBN: 1491204052
Published: 2013-09-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-six

THE MONTH OF July passed in a full bloom of pink and red roses, yellow-petaled brown-eyed Susans, and a collage of other flowers that painted our yard in vivid splashes of color. Elizabeth said that when she and Gram sat on the back deck, sipping iced tea on sunny afternoons, she imagined the gardens were the foreground in a Monet painting, and the sailboats in the distance on the choppy blue bay were joyful brush strokes of whimsy.

I asked if she was interested in using Ryan’s boat, but she said boating was not something she would attempt alone. I suggested she invite some friends down to visit some weekend, but since she had agreed to be on call for us, she said she preferred to be on land and available, just in case.

As for Gram, she painted hundreds of beach stones that summer. As August drew to a close, just before I returned to school, we decided to hold a yard sale on a Saturday, sell most of them for five dollars each, and donate the entire proceeds to our favorite charity – the IWK Children’s Hospital in Halifax.

I spread the word in town and stapled posters to telephone poles. I also sent an email to The Chronicle Herald, and a reporter showed up the morning of the sale to do a story on Gram. Ryan barbequed hot dogs that we sold for a buck each. We raised just over two thousand dollars.

When Labor Day weekend rolled around, I was eager to get back to my studies and my friends at school, but uneasy about leaving Ryan, Gram, and Elizabeth, because if the summer had taught me anything – it was that life was precious, and family, even more so. It was not going to be easy to say good-bye, and I dreaded what changes might take place while I was gone.

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