April 15, 2014
2014 A to Z Blog Challenge
Day 13
A Rural Life
M is for Magnolia
We’ve made it to week #3 and the halfway mark of the 2014 A to Z Blogging
Challenge. This is the fourth year I’ve
participated in the challenge and this year I’m focusing on A Rural Life.
Thanks for coming along for the ride in the 2014 A to Z
Blogging Challenge.
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We had a magnolia tree in the yard where I grew up. The
story goes while visiting the southern branch of the family, my grandparents
stopped along a country road in Georgia and dug it up. Family in Georgia vowed
and declared it wouldn’t grow in the cold winters of western Maryland, but it
did. It grew to a majestic seventy feet tall. (Us kids stopping jumping over it
and getting our butts smacked when it reached about two feet.)
When I built my house I tried and tried and tried to get a
seed from that tree to sprout and grow. Every attempt failed. A dear friend
offered to buy me a potted sapling but I explained it wouldn’t be the same.
As with all things, the magnolia died. The strange thing is
my grandfather died in March and by July of that same year, without warning,
the magnolia died, too. It sort of makes my wonder what magic elixir he used on
it to keep it healthy.
I was looking through my photo files and stumbled across a
picture of a magnolia bloom. It makes me think history should repeat itself the
next time we make a trip to Georgia. I’ll toss a shovel in the trunk, just in
case, and see if my stepson can find an empty country road with a very young
magnolia tree.
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You didn’t really think you’d get away without one more
brief book promo, did you?
KC Kendricks
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