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Apr 4, 2021

Dona Gardenhire | Obituary - Rockwall County Herald Banner

When Frank passed, Dona moved back to Rockwall where she reconnected with childhood friend Dr. James Homer (Bud) Gardenhire whom she married in 1993. Dona and Bud traveled extensively until his passing seeking rare wildflowers to photograph. Dona was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church Rockwall and the Martha Sunday School Class, a proud member of the Rock Wall Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, The Friday Study Club, Friends of the Library, and the Rockwall County Historical Foundation. Dona was classy, social, and hardworking, with a great love for her family and cared for some as they aged. She had several lifelong friends and never threw away a greeting card. She enjoyed flower gardening, especially iris, family genealogy, and local history. Dona emphasized education and provided many with financial, material, and logistical support in their lives. She is survived by daughter: Mary Carol Vervalin and husband David; grandson: Steven Charles Skipworth and wife Caren; granddaughter: Carol Jean Neal and husband Tim; five great-grandchildren: Melissa Anderson, Austin Meine, Sydney Brandow, Jasen Skipworth, and Lindsay Hudgins; and three great-great-grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00pm, Monday, March 15, 2021, at First Baptist Church, 610 S. Goliad Street, Rockwall with Pastor Jesse Crouch officiating. Interment will follow in Rockwall Memorial Cemetery. A gathering of family and friends will be held prior to the service in the fellowship hall next to the Chapel, beginning at 1:00pm. Published on March 12, 2021 ...

Jul 26, 2019

Obit: Rosemary DeCarlo, 65, Of Trumbull - Trumbull, CT Patch

Via Abriola Parkview Funeral HomeRosemary A. DeCarlo, age 65, of Trumbull, passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 18, 2019 at Ludlowe Center for Health and Rehabilitation in Fairfield. Born in Brooklyn, NY on March 26, 1954, she was a daughter of the late Louis A. DeCarlo and Mary Palo DeCarlo and was a longtime resident of Brooklyn before she moved to Connecticut last summer. Before her retirement Rosemary was a legal secretary for many years at Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City. She is survived by her beloved sister, Denise Mortati and her husband Joseph of Trumbull and a cherished niece, Kathryn Mortati, and many cousins. Friends are invited to meet directly in St. Theresa Church, 5301 Main St., Trumbull on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. for a Mass of Christian Burial. Entombment will follow in the St. Joseph Mausoleum at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY. Friends may greet the family Monday from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at The Abriola Parkview Funeral Home, 419 White Plains Road, Trumbull. In lieu o...

Jan 25, 2019

Toast flowers as local and fresh as your food: Field to Vase dinners (photos, video) - OregonLive

Pacific Ocean in Carlsbad, California, on April 18; Bloomia USA tulips in King George, Virginia, on June 1; Joselyn Peonies on Kachemak Bay in Homer, Alaska on Aug. 3; Ocean View Flowers in Lompoc, California, on Sept. 7 and Red Twig Farms in New Albany, Ohio, on Oct. 5. Labluephotography.com/California Cut Flower Commission An additional event will be held in Sacramento on June 12, with a pop-up dinner on the lawn of California's State Capitol. Flower growers will highlight to lawmakers the value of locally grown products. Labluephotography.com/California Cut Flower Commission ...

Dec 14, 2018

Dave Roberts Says He'll Send Flowers to Paul Goldschmidt for Leaving NL West - 12up

Throughout his career, Goldschmidt has feasted on Dodgers pitching, posting a .302/.376/.551 slash line against the Dodgers while hitting 31 homers and driving in 98 runs in 130 games. Mercy.Assuming Goldschmidt doesn't sign with another NL West team when he becomes a free agent after the 2019 season, Roberts picked a good time to sign an extension. ​​While Roberts may miss getting to see Goldschmidt play on a regular basis, he probably won't long for the days of seeing the Dodgers get burned by him. If Dave Roberts was relieved enough to send flowers to Goldschmidt after seeing him leave the division, I can't imagine what former Mets manager Bobby Valentine would've given to former Atlanta Braves star and notorious Met killer Chipper Jones, had he been traded to another team outside the NL East.

Jul 6, 2018

The fleeting but spectacular bloom of Alabama's lotus

And of course, these are the plants of "lotus-eater" fame, the New World version of the lotus eaten by the sailors in Homer's Odyssey. Clearly, the sight of so many arrayed on the riverbank cast the same spell halfway across the globe and nearly three thousand years ago. "They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters," wrote Homer, describing what happened to three of his sailors. The lotus, he wrote, "was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return." Speaking of munching lotus, every part of the plant is edible, meaning it won't kill you. And some parts are down right delicious. Take a visit to an Asian market and you'll find canned lotus and fresh lotus. You can purchase the stems, or the seeds, or the fleshy root. The seeds have a warm and nutty flavor, and, by some accounts, including Bartram's, a laxative effect. That root is the most commonly eaten part. It is a big tuber, shaped like a banana and buried deep, often exceptionally so, in the mud. In fact, a common Buddhist expression holds that, "the lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud." In the Delta, you'll sink up to your knees in the black goo beneath the stands of lotus if you try to harvest one. Also, keep in mind that you'll be in the company of snakes and alligators moving, unseen, around you. It is an eerie feeling, for one of the alligator's favorite hunting techniques is to hide beneath the tall lotus pads and snap unsuspecting birds. So I suggest going the Asian market route. The root can be boiled, fried or sauteed. (If you have an immediate hankering to try lotus root, you may wish to visit Dragonfly Foodbar in Fairhope, which serves the root sliced crossways and fried as a French fry substitute.) An army of pollinators are always at work inside the flowers. You'll see wasps, bees, hornets and multiple varieties of syrphid flies, which, at first blush, look like bees. Another pollinator, though unexpected, is the red-winged blackbird. The birds are crazy about lotus flowers. They will actually rip the flowers to shreds trying to get at the seed pods. As an added bonus, eight and nine foot tall stalks of what appears to be a giant relative of the Queen Anne's lace wildflower are blooming everywhere you look on the riverbanks. It is known as water hemlock, and is a relative of the carrot, according to Bill Finch, noted botanist and science advisor to the Mobile Botanical Gardens. Though kin to carrots, water hemlock is not to be eaten, he cautions. Of all the tours I run in the Delta, those during lotus time are among the most popular. Once I nose the boat into a stand, with the tall pads hanging over the bow, people become almost immediately lost staring at the little world going on among the pads, under the pads, and above the pads. Indeed, the community living on, beneath and around the lotus stands in the Delta embraces all manner of creatures. Bitterns can be seen clinging to lotus stalks, seeking prey. Egrets perch on the pads for a better view. Dragons and damselflies hunt above the overhanging pads, while snakes and gators ease by below. Meanwhile, golden topminnows and killifish shelter in the shadows hoping to avoid bass and bream lurking in the underwater forest created by the tall stalks and flower stems. The chance to see the lotus population in all its glory is fleeting. Each blossom opens for a day, closes for the night, and reopens a final time on the second day before the petals fall off. The seed pods continue to grow for another month. The lotus bloom for about three weeks a year, and this year it appears that the present July F...