STOLEN!
This brilliant red flower held much meaning to Alma and her family. As she approached her 100th
birthday, the amaryllis turned out to be the last flower she ever saw, and then
it was only through daily photos. The amaryllis
had been a gift to her several years prior.
The bulb was later been transferred to the front yard flower garden
where she could see it from the house when she was no longer able to go
outside. Still
living in that same place, her daughter and grandson just passed the second
anniversary of Alma’s death and while thoroughly enjoying the first of the
season’s profuse blooming of this year’s roses, they were once again looking
forward to the once-every-year’s bright red floral display of Alma’s Amaryllis.
Unfortunately, as you can see from the photo representation, someone came by on
April 10, 2013, and snipped off and stole Alma’s Amaryllis as it was preparing
this year’s growing stalk! If things go as usual, the additional stolen roses
will bloom again and again this summer; not so the amaryllis - it’s a
once-a-year gift. Upon learning of such thievery one person commented, she’d
“like to think that Alma came by and snipped it to remember a little bit of her
earthly days”! 
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