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This picture of my dogwood and redbud trees was taken when the trees were in full bloom. Both trees showed their true colors this year! Like Margin Gaye sang–Well I’ll be doggone! But the line I like best is I wouldn’t be doggone; I’d be long gone! From wordstrivia.com–A “reprobate” is an individual who lacks…

A consent decree between the Democrat National Party and the Republican National Party has been lifted. The Consent Decree prohibited the Republicans from engaging in voter suppression tactics. Now, the chair of the Republican Party is openly saying that the Republican Party will again target communities of color with voter suppression tactics. She is saying…

I think in the past week, blackberry winter has come and gone! Some good news. Maybe some of the hoi polloi is waking up to the fact that the Republicans do not have their best interests at heart. The workers at the Tennessee Volkswagen plant has voted to unionize. Of course, the Republicans and the…

Leaves, shape, color, exterior seeds—both pictures are images of strawberries–right? Wrong–one is a picture of snake berry, a visual twin to a strawberry. If one were not an experienced forager, one might say it was a different variety of strawberry. But snake berries have no strawberry flavor (I tasted one. Snake berries are not poisonous…

A pig in a poke is something offered in such a way as to obscure its real nature or worth. (Merriam Webster) “Poke” is an old English word for sack. (Photo of pig by Kimberly Lake on Unsplash) Is the South a democracy an article asked some months ago. I answered no then and this article says the…

When I was growing up, I only heard people talk about Dogwood Winter and Blackberry Winter, you know those mini-cold spells during otherwise warm spring temperatures. Some years ago, I was talking to someone whose family had roots in Arkansas. It may have been a cold spell during May and she said it was “Stump…

Excerpt from the song Hair from the Broadway Musical Hair I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzySnaggy, shaggy, ratty, mattyOily, greasy, fleecyShining, gleaming, streamingFlaxen, waxenKnotted, polka-dottedTwisted, beaded, braidedPowdered, flowered, and confettiedBangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied! Burkina Faso, a country on the continent of Africa, has passed a law that allows its citizens to style their…

In December 2021, I went to the Frist Museum with a friend. I took a picture of the above because it resonated with me. What control do we really have over the forces hurtling us into an unknown future? We may initiate the forces, but our control is illusory and the forces will answer not…

Warmer weather is here. None of the mini-winters is forecasted. I’m clearing my flower beds and raised beds. Spring equinox is just around the corner. The grass/weeds are greening. My pear tree is in full bloom. It feels like spring! https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0rlYAIdN?s=a3&share_destination_id=MTczNTgyNjAyLTE3MTAwODgyMzI2NTA=&pd=0BkKlOkL&hl=en_US Excerpt: The Tennessee General Assembly has passed a bill that could potentially remove dozens…

Forsythia, daffodils, lenten roses, and the pear tree are blossoming this day in the first week of March. Just noticed that my phlox is also blooming! WLS, an AM station based in Chicago, was the late night radio station I listened to when I should have been asleep. In those days, FM wasn’t even an…