During the last year, Cecilia had gotten weaker and couldn't walk as far or as long as she'd like... so we brought along the wheelchair walker so she could still be out to people watch, enjoy the views to the nearby lake and an occasional picnic at the park.  She especially enjoyed her son Apol visiting in the fall and he spent all that time sitting with her talking and going on neighborhood walks with Cecilia.

As I sort through her drawers and boxes of documents, i run across a large box full of memorabilia.  I remember how she had started numerous times to organize her huge trove of photos and keepsakes into more manageable categories for placing into albums.
She clipped articles, names of places she visited, saved flight boarding tickets, museum stubs, photos and postcards and had placed them in envelopes labeled by location and dates.  She had identified weddings, roadtrips, cities visited, national parks and tourist destinations... all the trips memorable and important to her. 
It is great to see trips she's taken with family and others and how she must have enjoyed all those trips.  I find it amusing and comforting that i do exactly the same thing!  ❤