Around the Banks

As one drives along the highways of our home in North Central Florida, we are blessed with an extra helping this time of year of beautiful wildflowers, phlox and wild coreopsis, commonly known as black-eyed Susans. I remember picking small bouquets of these and presenting them to Mama and my Grandma Bullard. My oldest and best friend, the late Mac Pound, would pick them up and present them to the late Edna Feagle, who would present us with a Hershey bar. Grandma Bullard told us, "Don't aggravate Edna. She has work to do." We listened to my Grandma most of the time. The simple pleasures of childhood in White Springs were walking, talking and buying a cold Coke at Carvers Grocery Store. For u