SPRING WEATHER EVOKES MEMORIES OF THE PAST
By OLIVENE GODFREY
Here in Northwest Georgia, we are having our usual spring time pattern of a few days of warm and sunny days with "cold snaps" which have names like, Dogwood Winter, Blackberry winter, and so forth. We seem to be back in our old pattern of this being our rainy season. Since April is almost here some people may think the "cold snaps" are over. Not likely. Somewhere in one of our many photograph albums there is a picture I made around April 4 a number of years ago. The picture shows my red tulips heads sticking up in the snowfall.
And, I remember back in 1947 a lovely, warm, sunny day in late April. My late husband, Ralph, and I were engaged and our wedding date was set for May 1 of that year. Ralph and I and his sister, Agnes, and her boyfriend, drove from Dalton to a mountain creek not far from where son Barry and I live now.
We had planned to roast hot dogs in the picnic area until we discovered we had forgotten to bring the hot dogs. (Hey, it was spring and we were young and had other things on our minds.)
I have some pictures that were made that day and one of them shows Ralph and I walking across the river on huge rocks.
I was wearing a summer dress with a bare midriff and my long hair was in two braids.(That dress must have seemed daring back in 1947.) It was a nice day to remember.
Now, the scene changes and Ralph and I were married in a Dalton church which was packed with relatives and friends. We borrowed Ralph's dad's new Chevy and we drove to Atlanta where we had reservations at the old Henry Grady Hotel. The weather was warm and nice when we arrived at the hotel. The next day, a "cold snap" moved in. We hadn't brought coats with us and when we went out to eat at restaurants and one day went to the elegant Fox Theater we nearly froze. When we returned to Dalton, the weather had changed back to warm and sunny spring weather and stayed that way until fall of that year .
So that is how the weather goes. The pear trees this year have been so pretty with their snow white blooms Our pear tree bears fruit and sits atop our foothill in a little clearing. The tree was so small when we moved here 30 years ago that Ralph covered it with a plastic garbage bag when a frost was predicted. The tree has never been pruned and grows ever which way and I think it's crooked limbs give it character and I love the tree just as it is.
Our Incredible Poinsettia is still pretty with its scarlet leaves and tiny yellow blooms defying the odds that it would bloom again. And, the pink geranium knows it's spring even though it sits beside the poinsettia on the den floor inside the house as it blooms it's heart out. The two new shrubs which the landscapers planted to replace old ones killed during last summer's drought conditions are looking good with nourishment of the recent heavy rains here.
See you next time.
By OLIVENE GODFREY
Here in Northwest Georgia, we are having our usual spring time pattern of a few days of warm and sunny days with "cold snaps" which have names like, Dogwood Winter, Blackberry winter, and so forth. We seem to be back in our old pattern of this being our rainy season. Since April is almost here some people may think the "cold snaps" are over. Not likely. Somewhere in one of our many photograph albums there is a picture I made around April 4 a number of years ago. The picture shows my red tulips heads sticking up in the snowfall.
And, I remember back in 1947 a lovely, warm, sunny day in late April. My late husband, Ralph, and I were engaged and our wedding date was set for May 1 of that year. Ralph and I and his sister, Agnes, and her boyfriend, drove from Dalton to a mountain creek not far from where son Barry and I live now.
We had planned to roast hot dogs in the picnic area until we discovered we had forgotten to bring the hot dogs. (Hey, it was spring and we were young and had other things on our minds.)
I have some pictures that were made that day and one of them shows Ralph and I walking across the river on huge rocks.
I was wearing a summer dress with a bare midriff and my long hair was in two braids.(That dress must have seemed daring back in 1947.) It was a nice day to remember.
Now, the scene changes and Ralph and I were married in a Dalton church which was packed with relatives and friends. We borrowed Ralph's dad's new Chevy and we drove to Atlanta where we had reservations at the old Henry Grady Hotel. The weather was warm and nice when we arrived at the hotel. The next day, a "cold snap" moved in. We hadn't brought coats with us and when we went out to eat at restaurants and one day went to the elegant Fox Theater we nearly froze. When we returned to Dalton, the weather had changed back to warm and sunny spring weather and stayed that way until fall of that year .
So that is how the weather goes. The pear trees this year have been so pretty with their snow white blooms Our pear tree bears fruit and sits atop our foothill in a little clearing. The tree was so small when we moved here 30 years ago that Ralph covered it with a plastic garbage bag when a frost was predicted. The tree has never been pruned and grows ever which way and I think it's crooked limbs give it character and I love the tree just as it is.
Our Incredible Poinsettia is still pretty with its scarlet leaves and tiny yellow blooms defying the odds that it would bloom again. And, the pink geranium knows it's spring even though it sits beside the poinsettia on the den floor inside the house as it blooms it's heart out. The two new shrubs which the landscapers planted to replace old ones killed during last summer's drought conditions are looking good with nourishment of the recent heavy rains here.
See you next time.
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