My grandchildren like to make footprints. When they get out of the pool, they will sometimes purposely walk around on the deck, leaving those wet little shapes of their feet. We’ve all read (or written) mystery stories that involve searching for footprints as clues to who has been where. I’ve sometimes wondered if the places […]
Jul 11, 2013
The Cat’s Meow
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Lazy Summer Slumber softly, summer cat, Dozing in the sunbeams. Needing neither rhyme nor reason To become one with the season; Tawny, yawny, warm and mellow, Sun-drenched days and cat of yellow Loving lazy daydreams. […]
Jul 10, 2013
Mighty Mullein
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I see it growing beside highways and in the woods. I never thought about it being particularly important because it looks like a weed. It’s leaves are a soft, blurry kind of gray-green and its bloom pods have tiny yellow flowers and not many of them blossom at the same time. It goes by the […]
Jul 8, 2013
Lightnin’ Bugs
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They come every year about this time, those tiny little flashes of light in the summer night. Some people call them fireflies but I’ve always called them lightnin’ bugs. They don’t much resemble a fly and I wouldn’t say their glow is like a fire but it sure does light up the darkness. Wikipedia says […]
Jul 7, 2013
A Glimpse of History
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Yesterday I wrote about a story my mother told me concerning the Latty family and World War I. This period in history has always fascinated me. Looking back at it, times then seemed to be more innocent, less hectic, more straight forward and a lot less crowded. Tahlequah, Oklahoma was small and had dirt streets. Farmers […]
Jul 2, 2013
There Was an Old Lady
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There was an old lady with flowers galore Though she had quite a yard full, she kept planting more. Like unruly children, they got out of hand ‘Till vines, leaves and blossoms covered her land. Sometimes I feel like the Old Woman in the Shoe except instead of children, I have so many flowers I […]
