Random Flashback for Friday 7/10/15

Normally the picture every Friday is from twenty years ago (give or take a week or month), but every now and then I break with tradition and supply a photo that doesn't fit those rules.

This is one of those times.

Tonight's picture is in honor of my biological mother, who passed away a few days ago.  It's importance is that it is the last photo taken of the two of us together ... in St. Louis ... back in the mid-aughts (what can I say ... distance defined our relationship) ... at my sister Bonnie's house on the occasion of her middle child's graduation.

Her pictures will continue to appear on Fridays in the weeks and years ahead despite her passing (especially around the holidays as she was always good about sending a picture in the Christmas card each year).  But for tonight, this seems like the right photo for the right time.

RIP Mother Mary.