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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Old Fashioned Snowball Bush
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed Apr 30 09:36:41 2008
References: <00f301c8aa69$a9cb7370$6101a8c0@jimnichols> <48189DF0.2000705@hemenway.com>

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
>>
>
>
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