Huh? What's Up With That?

  oddities, observations & ?s #7                            Last spring, we took a day trip to Frankfort, Kentucky, a city with a rich and colorful history, lots of ongoing political intrigue, and surrounded geographically by a hill-and-valley type landscape.    Speaking of landscape, we came upon a plant and flower nursery while in the state capitol that we thought was unique.    Wilson Nursery is located on a state road called the East-West Connector Highway  and  is situated on a hillside about two blocks long and a block and a half wide. A full service restaurant is at the crest of the hill and the rest of the nursery slopes downward from the eatery.  The layout was like a water slide.      I seated myself on the back deck of the restaurant at a table for four under a huge canopy that shielded diners from the sun.  A glass of iced tea was all I needed...

  put 'em in a salad, put 'em in a stew...                                   guy clark, 1981                                                                       I am hard pressed to come up with any person I admire more than those who can grow homegrown tomatoes in the summer.     Part of the reason for this outright adulation is because after many, many, futile warm seasons, I finally gave up all gardening pretenses.  Acknowledging there are those who are superior in the skills of gardening allowed me to move on to other pursuits.     HUH ?  What's up with that ?    It is such a delight to eat a slice of a homegrown tomato on a fried egg sandwich, or, when placed on top of b...