Hi everyone!  Have you ever heard of someone who received the shingles vaccine still getting the shingles?     Mike had his vaccine about 5 years ago, but I believe he has the shingles.  He has no blisters (yet), but his side is sensitive to the touch and hurts like…you know what.   I went today to get him some medication, and on my way home, I drove along the river road from Hiltons up into the Maces Spring area.   I like that drive.

It’s fall and all along the river, there is this yellow flower which I’m sure is a weed, but one man’s weed is another man’s flower and I think it’s a yellow flower.

Oh..and I saw this.   Burley tobacco.    “In the day” when Burley tobacco was everywhere, it was cured out in the field for a few days and then hauled to a tobacco barn.   This hanging and draping came later.

Some visions trigger other senses, and I can look at this picture and smell tobacco — not the tobacco that is in cigarettes, etc., but tobacco as it travels through the different processes from green leaf, to yellow wilted, to “in case” to packed.  It has a strong musty smell.

And here’s what I was really looking for..you can take Park Avenue any day–just give us farm girls our barns.

Especially when they are all decked out with a quilt.  This one is a 6′ x 6′ quilt square.

I love the blues…but why not?  You know what country you’re in when you go past that Scott County line?   People in Scott County love their GCHS Blue Devils.

Thanks for riding along with me.