An apology to Mrs. Simon,or “Wow, look at all those azaleas!”
Posted by Brian April 05, 2006
(Yes, I know that the picture is of daffodils, not azaleas. I took this picture this year at the Wye Mountain Daffodil Festival. I don’t actually have an azalea picture at the moment. How unfortunate for you.)
When I was in high school, in addition to not practicing the trombone, I took a trip with the band to some high school band competition. The bus was too small to accomodate everyone, so I ended up riding in the car with the band director, Mr. Simon, and his wife. The trip was somewhere in the South, and it must have been in the spring. Mrs. Simon was very excited about all the azaleas which were in bloom, and how beautiful they were. She talked about it so much, in fact, that I became annoyed. I might have sort of kind of made fun of her azalea excitement to a few of my band-mates. Unfortunately, she found out about that, and jokingly apologized to me for her multiple azalea exclamations. Of course, then I felt bad.
But you know what? Mrs. Simon was right. Spring in Little Rock is freaking gorgeous! Little Rock is chock full of azaleas. And the redbuds, dogwoods, forsythia, phlox, tulips, and irises are blooming too. Not to mention all the flowering plants whose names I don’t know. The pear tree blossoms (always the first things to bloom around here) and the daffodils have come and gone, but the city is still a riot of color right now.
I’m sorry, Mrs. Simon! You were right about those azaleas.
Wow, those daffodils are pretty too! I don’t remember you going on a band trip in high school. Hmmmm, couldn’t be because I’m getting older, naw!!!! But I do seem to remember that we had some azalea bushes in front of the church house we lived in in Nitro, and that would have been when you were in 1st and 2nd grade!!! I guess I have selective memory.
I don’t remember much about that house in Nitro, Mom.
But I DO remember running around the Nitro church building with Lindsey. We were chasing Laura and pretending that our candy gave us super-powers.
Ah, the delusions of childhood. . . .
Hmmmm, you and Lindsey chasing her in the church building,… you and Ben convincing her to eat dogfood …. there was a whole lot more tormenting of your sister going on when ya’ll were younger than I realized!!!
Oh yeah, and I love the picture of the daffodils. Has your dogwood tree bloomed yet?
Ha! Thanks for reminding me about that dogfood thing. That was pretty funny, but I guess it was mean, too.
I think Laura was chasing us sometimes, too, though.
Yes, the dogwood has bloomed. It doesn’t look as good as it did that first year I lived there, though. There are several dead branches on it.