Locks of Love

This is my grand daughter's braid - after it was cut for donation. I cried like a baby when I saw this picture.
10 inches of love for a child she will never meet -but, who will be wearing her hair.
Last year I wrote a blog about my children being my heroes.
This year...................looks like I'll be writing about the next generation.

WHAT IS LOCKS OF LOVE?
Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses we provide help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children. The children receive hair prostheses free of charge or on a sliding scale, based on financial need.

I have a hummingbird nest in the leaves of my fiddle leaf fig on my back porch. A few weeks ago I was dive bombed by a hummingbird while I was watering my plants. I found her nest - with 2 eggs in it about a week ago. To help Mom out a bit - I went out and got one of those bright red hummingbird feeders and hung it on a branch near by. From where I sit, right here at my Father's desk - I can look outside the sliding glass doors in my bedroom and watch her flit back and forth from the red syrup and back to her nest to feed her babies. It's awesome.