Garden of Memories
watercolour
©2023 Charlene Brown
watercolour
©2023 Charlene Brown
My cousin Joye, who had lived here in Victoria since retiring in 1996, died exactly a year ago today. She wasn’t my closest relative, but I was hers as she had no brothers or sisters and had never married. Although she had several first cousins, I was the only one living in Victoria, and we were close friends.
In May, I organized a gathering to remember Joye on what would have been her 85th birthday. The painting shows some of Joye’s friends and family scattering her ashes under a ‘Memory Book’ in the forest on the far side of the lake in the Garden of Memories here in Victoria.
