progeny

Frances (1922)

The resemblance is almost spooky.

Frances

Maybe they are more lingering than anyone has even imagined yet?

Images From A Swing State

Greetings all! Sorry that the Hendersonvillians didn't get to go south. The image to the left, which shows a growth in our driveway, may help give you a sense of southern climes.

Here is an image of another denizen of Knoll Glenn. It's to give you a renewed perspective on life.

This image was made just this morning. Its name is "Labor Day".

Birthdays

Glacier ice

It really is this amazing blue color. The ice is compressed by all the overlying ice and snow and its crystal structure changes.

Out on the edge of the prairie

Dear All,

Marcus and I spent last weekend in Montevideo visiting his parents. It is a truly beautiful but vanishing landscape.

Mom and Charlie are coming up the end of the week and David is already here. We will all be going to Prairie Home Companion at the Fair so think of us when you are listening this week.

Also, this is what they have posted on the Prairie Home Companion Website about the location of Lake Wobegon:

Garrison,

It has always troubled me that Lake Wobegon is "on the edge of the prairie." The edge of the prairie and what? Because if it isn't right next to something else, then wouldn't Lake Wobegon actually be in the middle of the prairie?

David Honea
Raleigh, NC

David, the prairie as we know it is a formidable landscape, rather grand and austere, rather flat, a grassy plain, not so hospitable to our kind, not like the hardwood forests of eastern Minnesota and Wisconsin, which seem quite lovely and accommodating to us of northern European stock. There is a broad transitional band between the forest and the prairie, rolling farmland, somewhat wooded, and that's what we refer to as the "edge of the prairie". In the trees, looking out at the endless meadow.

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Love,
Laura

Hurricane Frances

Now there's a good name for a hurricane -- and if you're watching the potential track of this storm, you'll see that it's headed in Will's direction. It looks as though Tennessee could get some heavy weather, too.

Attention, Lewis County: Frances is headed your way!