H is for Hampton...

    I have been told my entire life that I am a decindent of General Wade Hampton III. A General in the Civil War (can war actually be civil???).  So for H, I would like to introduce you to my Great-Great-Great (I don't how many) Grandfather.

Wade Hampton III 1818-1902

Image via Wikipedia

   I am also proticipating in the A to Z blog challenge on my recipe Blog.
 Grandmom's Recipes, check it out.   

G is for Garden....

The battle lines have been drawn.

My Potatoes and Beans

The commanders take their places.

                                The Weed Demon and my Gardening Angel



The spies have infiltrated behind the enemy lines.

They get everywhere!!!!

The armies have arisen from their earthy graves.

Gold Potatoes

Pigweed

Let the war begin.

"The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,

One is nearer God's heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth."  

~Dorothy Frances Gurney~

F is for ??? ....

   Help I am frantic.

   My muses are missing in action. They are probably frolicking with friends. Leaving me to flounder in front of the computer.

   They are the ones that said we should flock together in fellowship (I sure don't talk that way) with the bloggers in the A to Z challenge... and then they were late on the letter E.

   Today for the letter F they are no where to be found. They are freaking me out. If you find them could you please forward their location to me. Better yet just Fax it.  I am so furious at their flight from their function in this partnership, I just might fire them.

   Who am I fooling, we all know I will forgive them when they finally fly back.  Besides the fables they will fabricate are the fiber that forms my posts.

“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”

 Amy Tan

E is for.... Excitment.

   I couldn't think of an E post. My muses must have been sleeping...Then my stepson called.  He was talking so fast on the answering machine all I got was “Hey Pop its me....”

   So what is the post you ask.... Excitement.
  
   Excitement, changes a person. You can just see and hear them morphing into an other being right in front of you.  They stand up taller. Their eyes light up. Their voice get stronger and higher. And the words literally explode out of them.

    If that person is a fast talker usually...go luck trying to listen to them. My ears are can not listen that fast. I just try to catch the major words as they fly by, and fill in the rest.

   An other thing about Enthusiasm is it is contagious and highly addictive. Luckily they haven't found a cure for it yet. But I am sure some evil person is out there as we speak trying to find one.

    I wish today is that everyone out there in the blog-a-spear catches it.

 “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
 

 Gloria Steinem

D is for Dancers....

   Okay, how could D not be dancers. I have had a love affair with musicals all my life. Not to mention having taught ballroom (think Dancing with the Stars) and country western (Urban Cowboy). Yes, I even taught a little disco...very little, I started teaching in the final days of the disco craze.

   So today is dedicated to some of my favorite dancers.  How many do you know.

    Gene Kelly                                                      Fred Astaire

Donald O'Connor                                              Danny Kaye










Vera Allen                                                         Cyd Charisse

                                                                    


















And more recently...

Mikhail Baryshnikov                                        Gregory Hines

Patrick Swayze                                                Savion Glover

                       

   If you have never seen these people dance, do yourself a favor and check them out on youtube.