I Can't Help It....

It's Friday so that means it's Tootsie Time!

I'm linking in for Fertilizer Friday

I love Lilacs!!

Their scent carries all worries and cares away

and brings back childhood memories.

Mom would pick a bouquet

and place it upon the kitchen table.

Each time you entered the fragrance embraced you.

I love this poem....

The Lilacs Mother Planted

I listened by the doorstep as the evening shadows

fell, 

While from the distance floated the faint tinklings

of a bell,

The night hawk circled overhead then dropped

straight down below,

The same as when I first lived there, in childhood,

long ago.

The trees have grown much taller in the yard

where once I played,

And now looked so majestic in their summer robes

arrayed;

And near the walk the lilacs flung their fragrance

to the air

The lilacs that my darling mother planted for us

there.

Ah, yes, what tender memories are forced on us

again,

Who leave our home in boyhood days and then

return grown men;

To seek again the playgrounds which in youth

we loved so well,

The shade beneath the apple tree, the old pump

at the well,

The woodpile, and the cellar door, the dear old

blacksmith shop,

The granary that held the corn with martin box

on top.

But dearer than the playgrounds was the perfume

in the air,

From those dear lilac bushes that my mother

planted there.

Oh, sweet and fragrant lilac, the one she loved so

well,

Thy fragrance brings to memory sad thoughts I

cannot tell;

Sweet lullabies of childhood sung at the evening

rest,

By mother clasping closely the one she loved the

best.

A voice that gently whispered sweet words of

love to me,

A face so kind and gentle, a heart with love so free;

Still yet my heart throbs feel them, still yet I see

them there,

When lilacs that she planted with fragrance fill

the air.

__Ed Blair.

My lilacs are blooming proudly

Once when we were stationed in Miami

I received a package from Fed Ex

it had been overnighted

when I opened it

I couldn't believe my eyes

or nose

Mom had picked the most gorgeous bouquet

of Lilacs from her garden

and sent them to me

I couldn't stop crying

she had touched my heart once again

the scent

the color

I'll never ever forget....