Raspberry Creme

 I started another motif on RST 1779.

These are not the colors I would use for a flower, but I have a feeling that this is what the original shades faded to.

Something about it seemed a little familiar to me, though--something about the pink and brown--and then it hit me.

When I was a wee tiny child, one of our neighbors presented beautiful cookie trays to everyone for Christmas. One of her specialties was a sandwich cookie that consisted of two thin chocolate cookies held together with a layer of pastry creme and a layer of raspberry jam. The whole thing was then dipped into a chocolate glaze that crackled when you bit into it.

Close family members were known to come to blows over the last one of these cookies left on the tray. I speak of the boys who lived next door to The Saint and me. We, of course, were perfect angels.

We were perfect because Mother hid the cookie tray and doled them out, one by one.