TIME OUT FOR A BIT OF TRIVIA

WIRES...the bane of a photographer's existence!

Sunset in Natchez

KUDZU...AAK!  The vine that ate the south, is said to grow a foot per day.  It can devour blights on the landscape in just a few months.  I personally think the government should establish a secret "KUDZU PROJECT" somewhere in Georgia or Alabama and find a way to convert it to a biofuel!

Who knows what's under there!!

Step on the crack and break your mother's back.  OR, invite an ant invasion.  (Simple minds, simple pleasures!)

Since he's losing his winter coat all over everything, Sambo had a pedicure and a "maneicure" today.  This is what was removed just in today's brushing.  More coming off tomorrow.

I remember paying big bucks for some gallon cans to plant along a suburban fence. Honeysuckle is wild and rampant down south, but not nearly as invasive as kudzu.

Gee's Bend Ferry:  tenders and dock art.

ZOOM-ZOOM!

Has-Been ZOOM-ZOOM!

Rusty stuff reminds me of how easy my life has been compared to what a hardscrabble existence previous generations endured.  And how fortunate I am.  Photos of the farm equipment were taken at Hopson Plantation, MS

GROUPIES...except that this guy, sitting at the bar at Ground Zero Blues Club while a very loud band played on and a cheering crowd roared, never once let his eyes wander from that glowing blue screen.  Takes all kinds.  Yup!

If it wasn't for the sun, you might think this was a California wildfire.  Naaa -- just a lovely Alabama sunset.

CLARKSDALE, MS

To this Left Coast woman, "delta" connotes the mouth of a river or the confluence and terminus of several rivers.  So, I was a little confused about why the region more or less in the "middle" of the Mississippi River was referred to as The Delta.  I soon learned that in this part of the country, distinction is made between "The Mississippi Delta" and "The Mississippi RIVER Delta"!  The River Delta is the mouth of the river, where it meets the Gulf of Mexico.

The MISSISSIPPI Delta is as much defined by culture as geology. Geologically, The Delta is a vast, agriculturally fertile alluvial plain where sugar, soy beans, corn, cotton are grown. Culturally, blues music style and tradition has its roots in The Delta region.

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 THE SUNFLOWER RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

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LANDMARKS & CELEBRITIES

Clarksdale was the boyhood home of Tennessee Williams, whose grandfather served as a rector of St. Georges Episcopal Church; Williams lived with his grandparents in this parsonage next door.

The church is in the middle of a historic neighborhood that is said to have influenced characters and events in Williams' plays.  The town celebrates an annual Williams

Festival that includes a literary conference, a Williams play, film screenings and a drama competition for high school students.

The Belle-Clark Mansion, on Clark Street was built by the town's founder John Clark. Clark's daughter, Blanche was one of Williams' playmates and is said to have inspired the Character Blanche DuBois in a "Streetcar Named Desire."

And......on the other side of the tracks, Ike Turner was born and raised here.

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DOWNTOWN

This is either a pretty seedy dive or an experiment for a vertical gardening technique!

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THE COTTON MUSEUM

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FOLK ART

And this one was created by a Parchman Farm (Prison) inmate.

More bottle cap art!

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MONKEYS ON DOGS!  

Three herding dogs, two charismatic monkeys, one rodeo-clown trainer, a bunch of wooly beasties, a happy, laughing appreciative crowd!   The woolies were herded into their gated community in little more than 5 minutes -- waaay too efficient!  Whine!

SO THERE!