Old timey buttercups are blooming here and there in the flower beds, and some hybrid daffodils out front.......We're expecting a wave of cold air tonight , so put extra leaves on the pink hyacinth that is a descendent of some planted by Mamas sister that died in 1930.....Yes, I know hyacinths don't live very many years........Shhhhh ! Hoping 'Adele' is snuggled down so deeply in her leafy bed she won't hear me....Uncle Louis' purple ones are much more prolific......There was a cluster of each color on either side of the old brick sidewalk leading from the road to Ma's log house when I was growing up....After the house was torn down the yard was farmed just like the wonderfully fertile garden nearby and the fields all around.....The plow scattered Ma's flowers from A to Izzard..... We hadn't gone back to the old house place for several years after my Uncle sold it out of the family...just too sad...One Spring my sisters and I decided we would walk up the old dirt road to see the place...After picking our way through the muddy spots we came out in the wheat field alongside the road...I looked up to see if I could see the house yet and started laughing....Mamas few clumps of 'buttercups' had been scattered all over the hillside by the plow...and there were hundreds of them shining yellow through the short stalks of green wheat......How Mama would have laughed ! Other Spring flowers were scattered here and there and we dug up bulbs to bring home with us...{We had got permission before we went up there. } I figure Mama set out those daffodil bulbs around 1918....And the hyacinth bulbs about the same time....Probably dug them up at an old housplace soemwhere....I have several clumps of them here.....and they are spreading... Every year or so I try to go back up to Ma's place...fearing each time something had happened to the flowers .Last Spring I was sad to see most of the flowers had been killed...no till farming , probably. Luckily there are still plenty of flowers that are in places too wild to plow, and rafts of day lilies have wandered off down through the field in the little wet weather stream that cuts across there....Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ $65/Hr Job - 25 Openings Part-Time job ($20-$65/hr). Requirements: Home Internet Access http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d60be6f3fb202a2efm06duc