Spring is springing here in Southern Illinois. There's a single dogwood tree out my kitchen window, which I see as a kind of a blessing. But, fear not. This weekend, I discovered that our local Rural King can fulfill my urgent desire for blossom beauty for just a hundred bucks. Happy spring.
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That Rural King tree is downright pathetic.
But...with a lemonade out of lemons attitude...add some hand-tossed garland, double the LEDs with something, oh, maybe blue (and flashing, if available) and stick it in a heavy, crack-glazed ceramic pot and, heck, it'd be almost basement-worthy.
Fun!
P.S. The lone dogwood in your yard has little to fear.
Oh, it is sad, isn't it? Oddly enough, your lemonade-added description sounds like the Christmas twig I decorated in college. Twinkling lights and all. Happy days...
Happy days... yes. College days.
\\Nice to know that there is a literate and successful author in southern Illinois, Laura. You're writing is inspiring, and I have only sampled it so far but will read a full book soon. My reading trough is full for the moment, reading JD Salinger's biography, and a book on sentences by Stanley Fish (that I roasted on Amazon review because, it's really that bad!--Amazon search sentences and Fish and you'll see it; sorry, Stanley Fish) and just plunging into The Great Gatsby since I heard they're going to foul it up with a new movie in 2012, I'd better get it read and imagined before MGM does it for me. But a Laura Benedict book is in my future (I Kindle and sample so I remember which ones I want to read). Cheers.
Thanks so much for the kind words. Those Kindle previews are perfect, aren't they?
I predict that you will enjoy The Great Gatsby. I don't know that I will bother with the film...I was scarred badly by the Redford/Farrow version from the 1970s. Even back then they were showing films to schoolchildren instead of making them read books.
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