I eagerly await them each summer......the shiny glossy leaves and the big white creamy blooms of the Magnolias!
In the evenings we've been watching "The Rifleman", the story of widower Lucas McCain and his little boy Mark. They have bought a ranch out in the New Mexico territory in the 1880s, after the Civil War.I wasn't sure I would like this old Western show, the episodes all in black and white, but it's a great show! We have loved every episode so far in Season one and these episodes were filmed in 1958 I think! Great stories and still keeping us entertained, over sixty five years or so later!The evenings are hot and muggy, lots of "skeeters" and "no-see-ums" ---aggressive little varmits! LOL. So it feels good to come into a cool house and watch good tv after the work is done and everybody is finally fed and happy.
What is blooming in your area and what are your favorite old shows or movies?
Oh, I remember watching the Rifleman back in the day when it was a current tv show. That must make me OLD! LOL. But it was a good show and had good values. They don't have much of that in modern TV shows. Oh yes, the magnolias are beautiful right now everywhere! So many beautiful white blossoms! I love to see them and celebrate them while they last! I'm glad there's a beautiful one right across the street from us where I can look at it all the time. Yes, it is HOT, and the bugs are starting to bite so we can't stay outside in the evenings for long. We had a nice rain shower last night, but not long enough. It's supposed to start raining tomorrow and rain every day this week, so I hope it does! We sure do need it. I hope you are having a pleasant day today. We are staying inside where it is cool. We had our "picnic" lunch yesterday with our kids (inside the AC house of course). Our church had a picnic today, but we didn't go as we just don't feel up to being outside in the heat right now. But hubby is feeling some better, but still waiting for those tests later this week. Take care my dear friend. It's always wonderful to hear from you.
ReplyDeleteAHHHH, the mystery of magnolias!! Those pristine creamy white petals, with the gold confetti spilling, and the two-color leaves that change in the wind. I miss them so much, and mostly have to take all my cravings from folks like you, who share the love and the bounty, and the great number of the PINK ones---called Tree Tulips where I grew up, and here paving many a yard and sidewalk with a carpet due a kingly retinue. I never walk on them, detouring way out into the street or nearly up onto porches, just to keep from ruining (or sliding on) the colorful carpet.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely to see your doings and seeings---your evening stroll is a grand adventure, and every Sunday an excursion to wonders. And I'm so glad to see you younger folks so eager for the old standard TV---more Family Values and Love and Grace were portrayed on those old B&W Motorolas and Westinghouses than has issued pouring from wall-sized screens filled with bubblegum color like great ViewMasters erupting into our homes. Lucas was a wonderful father figure, when we mostly all still had one of our own, and NOW is certainly a time for such loving, by-example raising of our families. Quiet hope and grim grace, though it be in his circumstance and time, are the same needed qualities when parents are portrayed as such jokes and fumblers, and spoken to only in punch-line retorts. EXIT SOAPBOX.
You have a WONDERFUL SPRING, and smell the manolias for me.
I love catching up with you, my dear! We love the old westerns, too. I think by now I have seen every single episode of Gunsmoke!
ReplyDeleteMy next door neighbor had a magnolia tree and would bring me a beautiful blossom every year. Alas, it died a few years ago and there are NO magnolia tress in our neighborhood. Not one!