Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim H, Thanks for looking. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Old Fashioned Snowball Bush > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >