Showing posts with label Cotton fields. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cotton fields. Show all posts

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Blooms in Alabama!

 

Well, Ah declare, Beauregard, Ah Never would have thought...

As mentioned, I travel for my work, and I had the most extraordinary day!  I went to Chattanooga, TN, yesterday and today found me going through a corner of Georgia, then across Alabama, ending in MS.  I stopped at the Space Center in Huntington, which was a first for me.  It is a "must see", a national treasure!  It has so many things to look at.  This time of year, not full of school children, just enough to make you smile.
  On down the road I picked cotton right out of a field, crossed down into Corinth, MS.  I am staying in a refurbished home built in 1872 which was a wedding present to a southern belle for her from her father, now named "The Generals' Quarters".
  Well now!  I happened to be seated for dinner and spotted both Generals Lee and that other one, oh! Grant! They were here for a reenactment.  Corinth was actually a significant battle ground that changed hands a few times; no wonder, no one can figure out the street grid that seems to criss-cross-apple-sauce all over the place.
  I had to mention that they should not list "Kentucky bourbon cheesecake" for dessert on the menu if they are going to spike it with Jack Daniel's Tennessee sour mash whiskey; it is *not* the same.  Ah declare! What eva were they thinking of?
 Here are some lovely photographs of my travels.  Thank you for joining me, talk to you in a few days!
 (These are cell phone photos; not the greatest, but ok in a pinch).