Azalea Time!

 

The azaleas in our back yard are in prime time today. I wish I had three times as many. Way back in the seventies sometime Sheila and I drove over to Sand Mountain -- a huge plateau in Northeast Alabama -- and purchased 30 of these large azaleas. We dug and fertilized thirty holes in our front yard on Cedar Avenue, and planted 'em. They were gorgeous through the eighties and early nineties. Somehow they petered ut after that and are all gone now. But for a couple of decades that yard was just glorious for for a few weeks every spring. I may make similar effort here one of these days. For now, though, we have these to enjoy each spring.