Thursday, November 14, 2013

Icicles and Ferrol Sams

The last two nights the temperature dropped to twenty seven F or minus 2.7 degrees C.

We took a drive up the mountain and noticed small springs oozing from the rocks had frozen into wonderful icicles.

Some of the icicles were over two feet in length.

I wonder if they will keep growing longer and longer over the winter.

I've found a wonderful used book store called the Mt. Yonah Book Exchange in Cleveland Georgia. I bring in books I read for a credit and exchange or purchase other books at a discount. I've grown tired of murder mysteries and asked the owner, Ellen, for a recommendation on historical novels with human interest. She steered me to books by Ferrol Sams, 1927-2013, a physician and writer from Georgia. I started with Run with the Horsemen, his first semi-autobiographical novel, and am thoroughly enjoying it. It's set in the Piedmont during the depression and is written from a young boys perspective.

"It's cold in dem dar hills", might be a line you'd read in the book. I can almost see myself reading all the books Sams has written. Knowing myself that's a scary thought. Ha. Can a person change that much this late in life? Hope y'all (Southern is rubbing off on me) are keeping warm. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.

8 comments:

  1. My parents used to go to a used book store in NH that worked on the same premise.
    I hope you are keeping warm in you RV, it sure has been cold these past two nights.

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  2. For all its brrrr cold, winter's canvas can be gorgeous. And, umm, yes, change is possible. An African proverb says: A river that doesn't flow becomes stagnate and then disappears.

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  3. Hi Michele, thanks, we are trying to keep warm, at least it's in the fifties during the day.

    Hi Kittie, thanks, what a wonderful proverb, love it.

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  4. The broad variety of good books is such a comfort. When you burn out one one genre, there's oodles of others--and there are new ones coming out all the time!

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  5. Love the icicles. And the book exchange.

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  6. HI Linda...great photos of the ice...yes, winter is here too, but quite a bit chillier! :)...Are you still roving the countryside looking for a grand new home?? Happy trails.. T.

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  7. Hi Ms. Sparrow, thanks, you are so right I am getting lots of reading done now that I don't have clay to obsess about.

    Hi Elephant's Child, thanks, I was impressed with your reading list on your blog. wow

    Hi Trish, thanks, yes still wandering, may have found a place if someone else didn't out bid us.

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