MOTHER LOVED FERNS!

Mother Loved Ferns

Mother loved ferns.

And I love ferns now.

Troy & Tobi made a stepping stone

for my garden to remember her.

I’ve sprinkled in some fern photos

from my garden

as I tell you about Mother.

She called herself a fern collector.

Though she had only a

small patch of garden outside

her back door in Between, GA.

on Hwy. 78.

She started going to Fern Shows.

Found some bed sheets with

a fern print and had a lady

make her some curtains

out of them,

and a sleeveless dress, too

with two big pockets, upon which

she embroidered her monogram

M.A.D.

Margaret Ashurst DeLoach.

She was one of the first in

Georgia to apply for a 

Vanity License Plate

that read - F E R N -

She put it on her little used

green Volkswagon that came with

bullet-hole decals on a side window,

as if Bonnie & Clyde

might’ve owned it once.

She was one of a kind!

And maybe that’s what they’ll

say about me,

 a Chip

off a beautiful ol’ block.

Life is really beautiful when you

take time to

reflect.

stay tuned . . .

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