Yesterday’s commute was a foggy one. Combined with a pastel-colored sky at sunrise, it made for a beautiful start to my Friday morning. Happy Weekend!
Graffiti Artist
July 20, 2011 By 6 Comments
We have an anonymous local graffiti artist in our town. I’m pretty sure most graffiti artists remain anonymous so as not to get caught, right? In any case, ours leaves the letters above on everything around town. Buildings, signs, even in concrete-bottomed ditches. The “art” has made the local paper and this person has yet [...]
Rollin’ With Buzz Lightyear
July 13, 2011 By 4 Comments
You have to agree that this Buzz Lightyear car is definitely more pleasing to look at than the Chucky Doll car, yes?
Funny Car Tags
July 6, 2011 By 5 Comments
Yes, it was all the former English teacher in me could do to not point out this misspelling to the woman driving her “new to her” Expedition.
Mississippi River Flood 2011
May 8, 2011 By 4 Comments
Naturally, when you live 20 miles east of the Mississippi River bank, your thoughts can become almost consumed with wondering if the levee protecting you from this mighty force of water is going to hold. Are we really safe? Are the river gauges really giving accurate readings of how high the water is? When will [...]
Tornado Weather-Southern Storms
April 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s been a scary few days in the Mississippi Delta. We’ve fared much, much better than our neighbors in Arkansas, Northwest Mississippi and the Memphis area, but it has been really alarming hearing the tornado sirens go off in our town a few times. I’m ashamed to say we completely slept through one siren the [...]
Rare Southern Snow
January 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
It has been March of 2008 since our little town has seen any sort of significant snowfall. The snow has danced above and below us over the past two years, but nothing to cancel school and work which is THE GOAL. The Weather Channel started warning us last Wednesday that THE BIG ONE was on [...]
