I first met Jim Dotson in the fall of 1990. If the phrase “larger than life” ever applied to anyone, Jim was a candidate: a bear of a man, he had served as a Marine in Korea before attending Clemson on the G.I. Bill and playing on the football team (this was the...
Ornamental gardening doesn’t have to be difficult
Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is a large evergreen tree endemic to the southeastern US. Ranging from coastal Virginia to west Texas, they are a common sight from farms to suburban streets. If there's any plant that's emblematic of the Deep...
Tragedy and coincidence in four wars
Whereupon your humble author and The Bosslady make a return to the Golden Isles of Georgia.
Moar Shpip vacation!
In which we follow Shpip and The Bosslady through a couple of weeks of getting sand and salt spray in… everything.
Ocala, Florida wasn’t known for much back in the 1950s. No real natural resources if you don’t count the National Forest east of town, and while Silver Springs drew in some intrepid tourists back around the turn of the century, the attraction and its glass-bottomed boats weren’t exactly making the town a vacation destination.
Ah! Distinctly I remember