Don't fret,now that I am over 39 they don't smell anymore.R ----- Original Message ----- From: <RoverLSmith@aol.com> To: <PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 15 01 PM Subject: [PABRADFO] No Lilacs in Florida : ( > All this talk about lilacs and I'm ready to jump on a plane. > > I grew up on two farms about three or four miles apart. The family plot on > one of them is now under a road. The stones were removed and placed in a > local cemetery. Across the road from the other farmhouse was an old > cemetery. The stones from that one were pulled up and tossed against a fence > so they could plow the field (seems they must have been hard up to need that > small lot with all the other land they had). I don't know what became of the > stones, but later someone built a house there and put a garden where the > graves were. > > One of the original homestead houses on the second farm, which burned down in > the 1860s, can still be identified by the trees and flowers. No lilacs, but > there are stars of Bethlehem all over, and probably other flowers that return > each year from bulbs. What really surprised me was there were still > hollyhocks last time I was there. > > I haven't smelled a lilac in over ten years :( > > Debbie > >