The circle of grass is well-defined with an in-the-ground plastic divider. At one time I had a number of Azaleas here and at another time Lilies.

Well, I have been wanting to try this neat little deli, Peppers, across the street from Lowes. Today was the day. I ordered an appetizer, nachoes; no harm in that. WOW! Whoa! I think everyone in the place heard my exclamation. It was humongous.  I ate half, saved Kurt half and was too full to even think about working in the dirt (actually, the rain was already going to keep me out of the yard). Didn’t go to Lowes, went home.

Jeanne witnessed the nacho remains, a reflection of what I ate, and said we were having soup and salad for supper. When she cooks she doesn’t just want me eating she wants me appreciating her effort.

I think the large doll to the right is her favorite purchase out of the 20 or so she bought. They will all be for resale in Jeanne’s Corner at Calico Mall.

Note: Jeanne’s photo! It is delightful and I fuzzyed it. I was fooling with my little Casio pocket camera and left a setting in the wrong state. I was sick, and you can’t stage a moment like that.

There was doll talk all over the place. Then I heard one lady announce to the room that a doll under discussion was wearing her original panties. Well I had an impulse to say "That’s a good thing in dolls" and only barely held my tongue.  So I went outside to take some pictures of the yard and neighborhood.

(The lady selling the estate is in her 80’s and is moving into an apartment. She obviously loved flowers. The ones above are not all I found in her yard. I wonder if she is going to have some plant-space at her new home.)

We came back through downtown New Orleans and it looked "spiffy". Witness the Tulane Medical Center in the photo below.

And finally a picture of downtown Hattiesburg I took last week, just because it reflects a New Orleans influence.

Where is this going? Well, I moved the un-lucky bamboo outside and planted some of it in the front flower box. I have it in a shady, damp spot; “Damp” because it is near a miniture sprinkler head that sprinkles anytime I use the front hose. I planted it about a week ago and one stalk is obviously growing. Here is a marker photo I took today. I’ll take another in a week and we’ll see. We will just see.

I recently received a request for some more detailed photos to ID the trees. Here they are.

Don’t pay any attention to the volunteers along the Crepe Myrtles and Red Tops in the background (did you look anyway). I have just started working on this side of the yard and soon they will be volunteering as mulch.

Here’s a better picture of this particular Purple Glory Tree. The bloom seems a little less dark-purple after a week under my carport.

Much of Mississippi’s roads still awaits desecrate by man. Yea.

Gerber Daisy
about to eat the world