Southern Snowstorms

When a couple inches of snow cripples an entire city, a few of my northern friends snicker and shake their frozen heads. They don’t understand; so I’ll try to explain. Imagine that yesterday those two inches of snow turned all of Birmingham into an ice skating rink, and the cars are like people who have never strapped on a pair of skates in their life, and they are scared to death; because in this game when you fall you can’t get back up. You just lay there on the ice, and the guy approaching you starts flailing his arms, but he doesn’t know how to stop. And the pile grows.

My middle child Leandra went to school in Ohio and in this analogy she’s an experienced skater, but that’s little help when everyone else is sliding around on the ice. I was on the phone with her for hours acting as a GPS and giving her alternate routes when the roads were completely blocked. I couldn’t get her all the way home, but I got her within two blocks of my friend June Mays’s house, and she walked the rest of the way.

This is the picture of June we used in the magazine.

I met June at a Garden Writers conference, and I wrote an article about her garden for the September 2012 issue of Alabama Gardener Magazine, so I have lots of pretty pictures of June’s garden to add horticulture to this post while I do what I want to do, and thank all the people who are helping out in this emergency and pray for those who are still stuck.

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Note: All these pictures are from June’s gorgeous garden, and Monica took some of them.