Dear Memory Pals, What plantings of your childhood so you remember?What precious trees or shrubs were backdrops for your family's snapshots? This is the time of the year that my gorgeous wisteria bush is in bloom beside my Victorian wrap-around porch..Besides being a luscious shade of pale lavender,the sweet smell of it's flowers drift through my screen door to provide nature's best air freshener. Many Mother's Day and Prom pictures have been posed through the years in front of it's backdrop.Many moons ago,on the eve of my departure to Kentucky for college,I posed in front of its branches.This Friday when three generations of us are leaving for our church's annual mother and daughter banquet,we shall stop and pose in front of it's sweet blossoms ,swat away carpenter bees,and record another momentous event for our family chronicles. I never want to live long enough to see this delightful plant die.It holds too many keys to precious memories.The blossoms are exquisite,but even in the bitterest part of winter,it's ancient twisted branches weave a pattern of soothing shadows.Plants are indeed member's of our family so to speak. What one's linger,as sweet echoes of your past? Waxing maudlin tonight, Jerilyn