Blooms
for all seasons
Two
bright pink azalea flowers on a shrub greeted me Christmas day as I pulled back
the curtains.
Grateful
for our mild winters, Southeast Texans can look to their landscapes for a
variety of blooms now. Some are even more unexpected than usual.
I
visited a friend with a little bouquet featuring yellow copper canyon daisies,
purple “wandering jew” blooms, a fragrant rosemary, a stalk of succulent and a
tropical leaf.
She
later sent a photo, proving the bright colors popped against her purple wall.
That made me happy, so the gift kept on giving.
Head
to the far corners of your back 40 to see what’s blooming out there just for
you.
New
Orleans story
I’m
nearly done with an advance copy of
“The Feathered Bone,” which Julie Cantrell begins with a field trip at
Mardi Gras world in New Orleans, the ferry to Algiers and Jackson Square.
That’s
heaven to me, and I can picture, feel and smell all those spots. But this story
is about an abduction. Amanda is in charge of some children, including her
daughter and her best friend. The friend goes missing and this story covers the
years after and how that day affects so many in a community. As chilling is the
story of Sarah is, Amanda, a social worker, is learning how to deal with
tensions in her marriage and her daughter’s coping with Sarah’s loss. Amanda
hears others give her advice she has doled out all these years to others and it
sounds strange to hear it back.
The
title reference is to a feather that a palm reader in Jackson Square gives Sarah
minutes before her abduction. A feather bends, but it is difficult to break, is
the theme of a very memorable book.
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