"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera" ~Lewis Hine
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” ~Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
"Life is to be ENJOYED not just endured" ~Gordon B. Hinckley
Laugh your heart out
Dance in the rain
Cherish the memories
Ignore the pain.
Live, Laugh, Love
Forgive and forget
Life is too short to
be living with regrets.
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~George Eliot
“Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.”
All good things must come to an end and it is time to retire this blog. I have decided to start a new blog with a unique name. Live Laugh Love is a very common saying and many have used the term (or variation there of) as a name on their own blog. The web address was also a bit hard to remember for those not using a RSS reader. So it’s in with the new. Let me introduce to you ….
You might be wondering where the heck did I come up with a name like that? Well, the first thing I think of when I remember visiting Granny Mann when I was a little is the smell of honeysuckle growing wild down the road in front of her house and trying to catch fireflies in a jar in her front yard. Hence, Honeysuckle and Fireflies.
I also remember the sounds of the whippoorwill and bobwhite as they called throughout the late evening and the smell of the woods drifting through the window after a sudden storm. During one visit, Granny and I walked down the newly graveled road and found crystals. I loved holding them up to the sunlight and watching the colorful rays that shone through the rock dance among the blades of grass. The south seemed so magical back then and still is in many different ways.
Please come join me as I explore the everyday life and adventures of being a southern housewife and mother over on Honeysuckle and Fireflies.
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 Tbsp. white Karo syrup
pinch of salt
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups sifted flour
1/3 cup sifted cocoa
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Powdered sugar (optional)
Cream butter and sugar. Add egg, syrup, salt, vanilla then add dry ingredients. Mix together until flour is incorporated. Fold in nuts. Pour into a greased 13×9-inch baking pan. Bake at 350 F for 30 or less (toothpick clean test, see note). Cool completely before slicing. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.
Note: Best if slightly underdone – batter barely sticking to a clean toothpick, not gooey.
Henbit and chickweed are two very common weeds in my backyard. I know spring is around the corner when they start growing and taking over the whole yard. Both weeds are actually medicinal herbs but I have been afraid to use them.
Chickweed
Image Details:
Nikon D3100
50mm F/1.8G, with a x10 close-up filter attached
F/5
1/60
ISO 100
Yesterday while approaching the check-out line at a hospital cafeteria I overheard the lady that was in the front of the line say to the cashier that she was going to pay for her sister’s lunch, “Oh here she comes, not her, the one behind her, the pretty one.”
I pretended not to hear but when I looked up a little few seconds later the woman that spoke the words gave me a smug little smile then went on her merry way with her pretty sister. She left me standing there feeling like the ugliest woman in Arkansas.
People pass, soon to be forgotten. Good times, bad times belong in the past – they are distant memories. Sometimes all that remains is the love, or the hate. We make our life out of chaos, hope and love.
find.