[Leica] IMG: Old Fashioned Snowball Bush

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Jim, 

That is a fine image and evocative of one of mine.  My grandmother was born
in 1896, and as a young child the family moved to Oklahoma City from Kansas.
They brought a lily.  When my grandmother died, in 1986, my mom replanted it
in her flower bed.  When she died, I planted it in our front yard.  I have
no way to know how old it was when the family moved.  But, every year it
blooms and then withers in winter.  A message there somewhere, I suppose, if
only I were a thinker...

Ken

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Lily.jpg.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jim Nichols
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:27 PM
> To: LUG@Leica-Users.org
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Old Fashioned Snowball Bush
> 
> 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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