Home again, May 20, 2013

I had a great trip, some good weather and some bad;  had some good visits to historic site and some not so great. Out of my travel the last 2 years I have only see 2 locations that I was major disappointed with and one was on this trip and I will probably detail it in the future. I cut my trip short by a couple of days because of the weather and because of the crowded conditional at the tourist sites . Concerning the weather kept getting wet going from place to place and I seem to be just keeping ahead of the severe weather that was happening in Oklahoma. The first big storm that hit Oklahoma left Oklahoma and followed the jet stream in a big curve north west then turning east. I was south of it as it went toward Minnesota and Chicago. The next storm that devastated More, Oklahoma followed almost  the exact same curve path but was just a little more south than the first storm. Again I was just south of this path. In both of these instances there were tornadoes all along this path but you were not hearing about it because of the much more devastating nature of the storms in Oklahoma. My brother in northwest Arkansas was attending his grandson's ( Landon ) graduation ceremony from Kinder garden when the warning sirens went off and they had to head to the safe area in the school area. They said that will be one graduation ceremony they will not forget. As I watched the weather patterns on the weather channel they were showing tornado action heading into northwest Arkansas and eventually into Kentucky and another storm heading toward Joplin and Springfield, Missouri. I decided I was tired of trying to stay ahead of this thing and headed home this morning.

One of the wonderful things about coming home this time of year from a long trip is to see how things have grown and bloomed. I will show you a few items.

Don't Know The Name But Most Beautiful 

Blooms Ever

Red Knock Out Rose Going Wild Growth Wise

White Iris

Blue & White Iris

Dark Purple Iris

Yellow Rose Opening Up

White Knock Out Rose

Rose Knock Out Rose

Blue Clematis

If the rest of my knock out roses grow like the one in front of the house then there will be some beautiful bushes of roses. I hope this weekend to rent a truck and buy my flowers for planting outside. I plan to plant rose or red wax leaf begonia out front, some new Boston ferns, a variety of blooming hanging baskets and 3 or 4 of other flowering bushes.

Will close now. Remember God loves you and I love you also./

Grandpa Bill