Miracle flower appears out of nowhere

clematis 024Chalk this one up to a gift from God.  This morning Brenda and I were swapping some pass-along plants – I gave her a spade of my maroon and white iris and she gave me some ginger.

While we were wandering about my garden, she spied a purple Clematis climbing up the obelisk on my front yard.  The obelisk, a gift from Buck Swain, has been there five or six years, naked as a jaybird and I guess I never would have gotten around to planting anything to climb on it.

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Looking for a great read? Take your pick

biobb coleHave I got a great tip for you readers.  There’s a new mystery writer on the block and he’s writing some humdingers.

Well, at least Bobby Cole is new to me.  The only thing I can think about is going to bed so I can continue reading one of his novels.

Which is exactly what I’m going to do right now. It’s currently 4:15 p.m. by the way.  That should tell you how infatuated I am

Bobby Cole, author

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Bottom fishing in a handbag

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My life is at the bottom of a purse. No seriously. I’ve become a hunchback, hauling around everything I own in a cavernous handbag that could easily qualify as a storage unit.

Everyone knows that women carry around the weight of the world – on their shoulders, in a bag – Louis Vuitton if they’re lucky. My latest model was designed by Sam Walton and it has become the bane of my existence. It is a rather playful receptacle – one which initiates a game of hide and seek with me each day and I’m always “it.”

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