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I think Perry Mason‘s theme is the trigger for many of my memories. I hadn’t given much thought to my childhood. I grew up on a dusty gravel road that had few residents and was little traveled. The mailman was the only constant. Sometimes the county sent a grader to even out the ruts and,…

The purple iris is Tennessee’s State flower. I have four beds of irises–all different colors. When I was growing up, we called them Flags”. Interesting side note: Irises were commonly known as “Flags” up until the early part of the twentieth century. Irises were called “Flags” which is derived from the middle English word “flagge”…

Constitution of the United States: Article II   Yet, we have a president who has said in an interview in answer to the question–“Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” This is in the oath of office he’s taken twice, and yet he replied, “I don’t know. I have to respond…

Everywhere I go, and I do it to, people are staring at their phones. Maybe, like me they’re playing a game, especially when waiting or riding. In the past, I could not hold my entertainment in my hand and entertainment wasn’t instantly accessible. Now, it seems, people do not want to engage with reality and…

Seems like a long time ago and I guess it was. There was a tiny town, more like a grouping of buildings along a country road. At one time there was a button factory in this little town. When I was a little girl, the button factory was long gone, the train no longer stopped…

THe only thing missing from this picture of the moon is the haunting song of the whip-poor-will. In the summer, the whip-poor-wills were the heralds of deep dusk which meant it was time to go inside and get ready for bed. Now, I live in the city and I don’t remember the last time I…

I’ve said it before. I don’t have grass, I have weeds. Weeds that sometimes have pretty flowers like the pictured wild violets. When I was ten or younger, one of the cartoons I watched on Saturday mornings was The Jetsons. That’s what I thought the year 2000 would be like. How innocent! I saw the…

I’ve been outside, clearing the raised beds and the flower beds. Last year, I didn’t plant the raised beds. I will always wonder why the raised beds grow weeds and grass better than vegetables. I thought I cleared the raised beds last year, but obviously I didn’t, for there were saplings which had taken hold…

A red sunrise can mean that a high pressure system (good weather) has already passed, thus indicating that a storm system (low pressure) may be moving to the east. A morning sky that is a deep, fiery red can indicate that there is high water content in the atmosphere. So, rain could be on its…

I grew up with the yellow spring flower everyone I knew named “buttercups”. At some point in my life’s journey, I learned that those early spring yellow flowers were actually “daffodils”. My mother had a row of buttercups mixed with white narcissi. I never liked the narcissus because of its cloying smell which one couldn’t…