Choice Morsels

It's Azalea season here in the Deep South! Today's garden photos are of a side by side pair of Azaleas in my back yard: First, this nice shot of end of day sun lighting up some of the flowers on this dark pink Azalea: Second, the light pink Azalea next to it: Azaleas bloom in sort of a wave either working bottom to top or, like this one, from one side to the other. I took this shot, because you can see a fullness of blossoms in the front toward far side, but the side facing my camera is still full of buds.  Nor do they necessarily bloom all at the same time. I have two bushes in front and one is fully in bloom and the adjacent one is still mostly covered with buds. Though pretty, they require hedging maintenance; otherwise they grow into massively huge shrubs, 15 feet round!  There are dwarf types now---I'd recommend those, if you wish Azaleas.

 Yesterday, I had lunch with an Air Force Chaplain who was really good friends with my husband. The Chaplain was deployed at the time Dave died, but has since returned and reached out for a lunch chat. He's reassigning in a couple weeks elsewhere, but gave me the number for a different Chaplain Dave and I had known quite well in the past, but had lost touch with. So, I'm glad to be reconnected with that Chaplain & his wife once more! I spent 2 hours at the local T-Mobile office which is close by now here where I live, because I was having HUGE problems with Sprint billing because T-Mobile owns Sprint. Unfortunately, they allow them to operate separately. Some bug in the Sprint system was rejecting every avenue I tried. I find T-Mobile oh-so-much more friendly & helpful. We resolved the problem by paying Sprint off and switching me to T-Mobile. It didn't cost anything to do and I ended up in a plan nearly like the one I'd had with Sprint that was, in fact, about ...