A lot of the following pictures of Irene Banting were provided by my sister, Joy Phillips.
Picture of our Mother at her 80th birthday; rear row, sisters Beth, Joy, Ruth and Ivy. In the foreground, myself and Mother.
Wife Gayle with me, Mother and extended family
Mother with "special breed" cat
At New Orleans Japanese Garden
With Mother and sister Joy Phillips
Mother coming to check out my Zen garden
At Gulf Coast feeding the gulls
Our Mother before she had her strokes was the leading taxonomic authority in the New Orleans area.
Mother now lives in a rest home near Portland Oregon where she is close to her youngest daughter, Ivy Ledet
