Around the Banks

Johnny Bullard Guest Columnist By the time this article appears in the paper, we will officially be in the spring season. Spring 2024 here in our homeland is absolutely beautiful, but this year, spring is exceptionally phantasmagoric, almost dream-like in beauty. The Lord blessed us with plenty of rain before the advent of spring, and the pageantry of vivid colors from azaleas of every hue, the pristine white of dogwood, the southern pastels of redbud trees, violets, wisteria and wild azaleas, all display themselves among too many shades of green to name. I believe it's more than coincidental that we celebrate the highest holidays of the Christian calendar beginning this coming Sunday w