[Leica] IMG: Old Fashioned Snowball Bush

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Very pretty!  None here in the 'burbs yet.

Jim

Jim Nichols wrote:

> It's not Friday, but the linked image represents a part of my life that 
> began a long time ago.  When I was a child in the 1930s, living in an old 
> farmhouse on a family farm in Mississippi, the flowers that I knew were 
> those that were obtained from friends and neighbors as cuttings or 
> volunteer plants surrounding older plantings.  I presume that is how this 
> original snowball bush came to be there.  Thirty years later, after the 
> house was long gone, my wife brought an off-shoot of the bush to our home 
> in Tennessee.  After having been moved around our back yard several times 
> to find a location where it could prosper, it finally found a happy home 
> and has really presented us with blooms this year.
> 
> Nursery stock, planted a few feet away, has been really disappointing. 
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Old+Fashioned+Snowball.jpg.html
> 
> C&C appreciated.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>