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In reply to the discussion: My Mother passed away this afternoon [View all]tom_kelly
(963 posts)Before my mother died in 2005 I asked her to send me a sign that she was fine. She asked what I would like so I said "put a flower somewhere that it would normally not be, and therefore would be obvious that it was a sign from you." About a year after she passed I was taking care of a flower bed in front of the house for my father. I had pulled all the flowers in order to plant new ones and sprayed the bed with round-up. My intention was to let it sit for a few weeks for the round-up to wear off (I don't use round-up any longer). I came back to visit my father in a week and to my amazement there was a full grown array of marigolds in the middle of the bed - the rest of the bed was bare of anything. I went in and told my father the story which he didn't believe. I took pictures and sent them to all my brothers and sisters and most of them were thrilled. Anyway, when I came over to plant the new flowers my father was sitting in a lawn chair staring at the marigold. I planted all the flowers around the marigold.