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“meet-cute”
Hollywood has a word for it- it’s called ‘meet-cute.’ If you’ve seen any movies at all, the scene is repeated time after time. It’s when the heroine comes into the film and the hero is smitten. He’s never the same; he’s enchanted; he has to have her. He has ‘met the cute.’ This is how…
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The Last Fig Leaf
The last fig leaf fell from my fig bush this past week, a sure sign that winter and a weather change is upon us. It’s as if the plant world is undressing to clothe itself in the gray nightclothes of winter. With the recent cool, wet weather, I think we can safely say summer is…
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Heat and Passion
I’ve been watching passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) blooming over on Logansport Street in the worst heat of our summer. It has repeatedly caught my eye with its vivid cool blue bloom as it trails across a wrought iron fence. Having bid adieu to one of the hottest and driest Augusts East Texans have experienced in a…
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My husband is a ‘putter-er’
Jeff is on vacation, so today’s gardening column has been submitted by his wife who he coerces into filling in for him periodically. By Leabeth Abt My husband is a ‘putter-er’. Now, lest you double check the section of the newspaper you are on (thinking you’ve somehow wandered to the sports page), let me…
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In a Louisiana Pointe Coupee Parish Garden
With the aid of a boy scout this Southern Belle toured visitors through a Louisiana Pointe Coupee Parish Garden. A beautiful bit of Americana!