Driving the Delta (& beyond) with Friends

12/6/13 From Memphis, the Gateway to the Delta, with Peabody ducks, Felicia Suzanne's and the Orpheum via Holly Springs (Phillips' Grocery) and Oxford (Square Books, City Grocery and Faulkner's home,) my California friends and I ate our way through Greenwood, MS, the heart of the Delta, via Alluvian Hotel's, Giardina's, Crystal Grill, Lusco's and Delta Bistro. Think, lots of oysters, LOTS of onion rings, and enough fried foods to equal "15 pounds of bacon."

A crush to wash down a Phillip's Grocery greasy burger. 

Giardina's oysters 3 ways

 Broiled shrimp with Lusco's famous sauce.

On the Road Again

6/6/13 Hooray Hooray, it's finally the day.! T-Cups Trek #13 begins today. It's my annual girls' trip with five FUN friends---can it still be called a "girls" trip when all are in their 60s and at least 3 are Medicare card holders!!!

Each year it is like a "great escape" for us---no responsibilities, errands, babysitting or  work. This year it's a "mystery trip" and I'm the only one who knows where we are going---scary thought.

Blues Highway Trip started with lunch at The Gallery in Merigold, MS (chocolate cobbler for dessert) & shopping at  McCarty's pottery.

Hot tubs at the Shack-up Inn come with an "outward motor" & guess who has to crank it??? 

A cold cokey cola at the Crossroads of the Blues---Highway 61 S and 49 E---think Delta Blues singer Robert  Johnson. Do you know his story? We do!

Sabbath Snapshots in the Delta

10/16/11

Starting the day the Gideon way!

Fields white unto harvest----a great analogy with John 4:35 "Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."

Town churches in Greenwood, MS

413 Grand Ave. --Hilly's house in movie "The Help"

Actual country church---also used in "The Help" as Aibileen & Minny's
By 11:30 the ground was filled with cars.

A bright spot of yellow that grows along the I Canadian RR tracks
just north of town on Money Road

Porch sittin' sparse

Porch sittin' ---crowded

Tallahachie River Bottoms

Praises for a bright sunny weekend in the Delta!