In Bloom

The camellias in my backyard are FINALLY blooming. I have been anxiously checking the buds on the bushes for weeks to monitor their progress. I think my camellias are the last ones on the block to bloom!

Camellias remind me of my sassy great grandmother, Granny Tate. Her backyard in Grove Hill, Alabama had dozens and dozens of camellia bushes. My cousins and I would play in her backyard for hours picking up the prettiest blossoms that had fallen to the ground.

We would have loved nothing more to pick the fresh, new flowers straight from the bushes but our parents threatened to skin us alive if we picked those camellias. Now I can pick as many flowers as I want:)