It occurred to me today as I was thinking in my mind, where I sometimes think, that I should take some photos of my two above the ground gardens that I built to show you some of my veggies at this stage of growth in this 2006 farming season.
First, here is a head of iceberg lettuce that I pulled up today and gave to Melvine to put in the refrigerator. It is lovely, a well-developed, and heavy head of lettuce that will go good with tomato sandwiches, as well as salads.
A head of Iceberg Lettuce next door to my onions that are so good
Heads of Romaine Lettuce next door to my English Peas
Hugh's tomato plants held up by wire cages with squash on upper end
I have a peach tree to the upper left hand corner. You can get
a glimpse of my barn in the upper right hand corner.
Tomato plant, yellow crooked neck squash, bell peppers/banana peppers
One of Hugh's tomato plants with green tomatoes -- look at that!
Used my 12x Zoom lens on my Kodak digital camera to show you a tomato
and there is one to the left and just below this one. Come on down. Let's eat
tomato and lettuce sandwiches. Maybe we can spare some bacon too with
mayonnaise. In Georgia we have fried green tomatoes as one of our many specialities that are so good that they will make your tongue slap your tonsils (if you don't have your tonsils, they will put diamonds in your smile), or better yet make a jack rabbit spit in the eye of a Georgia Bulldog. I say "Roll Tide." I am an Alabama fan. I have loved the Crimson Tide since I was in grammar school when Harry Gilmer was our quarterback at BAMA. That mighty team with James Corbitt, Gordon Pettus, Lowell Tew, Vaughn Mancha, and others played in the Rose Bowl in 1946 (**see story below). But I love the Georgia Bulldogs and our coach, Mark Richt. He is awesome leader and is a Christian. I say, "Go, Georgia Bulldogs, sic 'em."
And, now, let us look at the photos I have taken . . .
Hugh's two above the ground gardens, 12 apartment Purple Martin House
Peach tree to the left and Hugh's barn in the upper right corner with
a Rose of Sharon bush that will have gorgeous purple flowers.
English peas are in the forefront of this photo and they are loaded.
A footnote of my memories of Alabama in the Rose Bowl in 1946
Rose Bowl 1946 - Alabama 34 USC 14 (These were our glory days)
USC suffers first Rose Bowl defeat in nine appearances as Frank Thomas' Alabama (9-0) steamrolls over the Trojans (7-3) in a 34-14 display of superiority. USC gives up more points in this one game than it allows eight previous Rose Bowl foes combined. Instead of passing USC into submission, Bama quarterback Harry Gilmer runs them, gaining 113 yards in 16 carries himself. James Corbitt adds 46 yards, Gordon Pettus 39 yards and Lowell Tew 43 yards. Only the defensive play of Ted Tannehill in the secondary prevents the score from being more decisive.
[Editor's note: If memory serves me well, Lowell Tew played in that game with a broken jaw. How about that kind of toughness. Harry Gilmer graduated from Woodlawn High School in Birmingham and was a classmate of my sister Mary
Evelyn. Harry Gilmer invented the jump pass. All of us thought we had to jump up in the air to thrown passes. It was a lot of fun. He was our hero. I wanted to be a sports' announcer and writer like Bill Stearns. He was a masterful story teller. Keith Jackson is my current hero in announcing college football games. I like him because he loved Alabama and Coach Bear Bryant. It was my privilege to lead his granddaughter, Mary Harmon Tyson to the Lord. She was named for Bear Bryant's wife, Mary Harmon. She attended our church in Birmingham when I pastored the Good Shepherd Pentecostal Holiness Church. Unfortunately, her family and friends told her that we handled snakes and put powder on people to cause them to have some sort of a spell. I tried to assure her that we did neither. She soon quit coming and I lost contact with her. Amazing story, but true.]
