Beautiful

This is the flower of a plant that grows prolifically in the Appalachians. Although the flower is beautiful, and lightens the dark forests of the mountains, it is also poisonous.  Point of the story?  If you are lost in the Appalachian mountains, don't eat the Rhododendron plant. 

1 umbrella - two different people  Ross is excited about the umbrella ! Beth is not. 

Now I'm sitting on the counter in the big kitchen, eating mini oranges and baby carrots, looking out the window at the Wellness Secret's flashing "Open" sign. Last Sabbath, I went exploring in the 30 + acres of land behind the church in Decatur, Arkansas. It was a glorious, huge afternoon. The mildly crazy breeze blew pieces of cloud across a deep blue sky, occasionally dimming the majestic sunlight that lit up the grassy field and just barely budding trees. I tramped happily across the field past the pond, and the empty blue Bud Lite bottle, and found a little gulley and found a place to sit on a tree was growing parallel to the ground. I waited there for a while, listening to the wind blowing over head, and almost mistook the place for heaven, it was so peaceful and alive. Then, the faint sounds of a giddy electronic device playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" drifted into my ears, and I realized that I wasn't in heaven yet. The invisible ice cream truck se...