More Snow, Just What Was Wanted!

Having endured snow since the middle of November 2006 with very few dry days, we are blessed again this week with more snow; yippee! I hear predictions are for an early spring, but probably down south was meant, don't you think? In any event, the larder is reasonably full, there are books to read and episodes of "Rumpole of the Bailey" to watch on the telly. Thank goodness for Netflix! Otherwise, I'm likely to be puttering around on my web site which - those of you who cannot help themselves and must check it out - is found at More Favorite Web Sites
Catchy title that, eh what? Too much Rumpole could lead to an escape in the general direction of Pomeroy's Wine Bar for me. Back to the telly!

Working on a novel

My novel, now called Malmaison Summer, is set in the fictional Mississippi town of Malmaison, seat of Semmes County, in the summer of 1917. The story takes place in the months of April, May and June of that year and culminates in an annual county celebration called Egg & Poultry Day. The second image on my blog here shows what one Mississippi town looked like on its Egg & Poultry day in June 1917. If you are familiar with the period, I'd appreciate hearing from you.

By way of introduction............

Remember the idea that we would not trust anyone over thirty? Well, I'm way over 30 now! My memories, some of them, the ones I can remember, are over 50 years old! It's called perspective; it's also called getting old, isn't it? Anyway, this space will most often be used to take a look back at former times - not just mine - to give some thought to the way things were or might have been. We're already on the journey of half a century...longer than lifespans amounted to just fifty years before mid-century, when I was born. I read somewhere a few years ago that knowledge from the beginning of time until 1950 had expanded some 250 times, then had doubled again by 1980 and doubled again by 2005. What a mind bender as we used to say in the long-gone (thankfully) 1960's! So...share your thoughts along these lines.