Columns

Create a “To Do” List, One Mississippi Attraction at a Time

Last week I was perusing one of the few remaining bookstores (don’t get me started on the impracticality of ordering books online without at least holding it in my hands, thumbing through a few pages and deciding for...

July 19, 2023 · Kara Kimbrough

Silver Linings Come in All Forms, Including Treasured Recipes

It’s summer, which in the south means one thing: it’s hot. Very hot. Even so, last week I was excited to find an easy way to make one of my favorite dishes, vegetable beef soup/stew. Yes, soup can be enjoyed in the...

July 15, 2023 · Kara Kimbrough

Felder’s Mississippi Berry

It’s official! As of this month, the blueberry is our official state fruit, taking its place beside the magnolia tree and flower, swallowtail butterfly, coreopsis wildflower, honeybee, and teddy bear as state symbols....

July 15, 2023 · Felder Rushing

Terry’s Creek News

At the beginning of our worship service last Sunday, baptism service was held for Jordyn Cooper who had made a profession of faith last week. Pray for Jordyn. During the morning service, a patriotic service was held....

July 7, 2023 · Catherine Brown

Here’s What I’m Loving in Summer ‘23

It’s hard to believe, but half of 2023 has slipped away. The halfway point is a good time to reflect on the food and travel-related items are on my favorites list. So, without further ado… Here’s what I’m...

July 3, 2023 · Kara Kimbrough

Felder’s Old-Fashioned Flowers

What went around is coming back around; multi-season old-garden plants are fashionable again. Decades ago, I started noticing that most new Mississippi landscapes were populated by a relatively small number of easily...

July 2, 2023 · Felder Rushing

Felder’s Tool Shed

It takes steely determination and a hardened heart to declutter what took years to accumulate. It’s hard physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not to sound morbid, because I’m fit as a fiddle and in a good place...

June 17, 2023 · Felder Rushing

Terry’s Creek News

After a night of bad weather last Saturday night into Sunday, we were without electricity in some places, and it just happened our Church did not have electricity. We met at usual time and decided we would just go into...

June 16, 2023 · Catherine Brown

Armchair Ponderings Flag Day

The country celebrates several patriotic National Holidays, with more or less, pomp and circumstance. One the less recognized holidays by Congress is Flag Day. Flag day celebrates the adoption of the flag of the United...

June 15, 2023 · Guy Geller

Felder's Sumac Plant

One of my favorite native plants for the landscape is seriously overlooked by MS gardeners partly because it is so ubiquitous in the countryside, and spreads a bit. Yet it is widely used in all the finest English and...

June 3, 2023 · Felder Rushing

Terry’s Creek News

Praise Team opened our worship service with beautiful song and music. Our guest pianist was Jeanette Hall in the absence of our pianist and organist. We appreciate you Jeanette for blessing us with the music you...

June 2, 2023 · Catherine Brown

Armchair Ponderings Remembrance poppies

This week I procrastinated a bit too long for my weekly column. Then yesterday was trumped (no pun intended) by a three hour sitting in a medical lab followed by an almost two hour waiting room session in the...

June 1, 2023 · Guy Geller

Felder’s Gardening Myths

Gardeners gonna do what gardeners gonna do. And I’m not here to try stopping anyone from following their own hopeful bliss, however they choose. But there is a lot of garden misinformation floating around, once spread...

May 28, 2023 · Felder Rushing

Armchair Ponderings Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day

One directive to my children was “never let a day pass without learning at least one new thing.” It is still applicable today in a letter of graduation to my great granddaughter this week. We all know that next...

May 27, 2023 · Guy Geller

Terry’s Creek News

Chris Myers was in charge of the Percy Quin Park ministry last Sunday morning with other deacons and men attending to help with the service. They reported a very good service. Will be another group to bring the message...

May 23, 2023 · Catherine Brown

Felder’s Fungicides

What does my neighbor’s pear tree have in common with my nose? Both could have used a little preemptive defense from predictable ailments that aren’t easy to fix. For the first, I’m seeing pears with burnt-looking...

May 20, 2023 · Felder Rushing

Armchair Ponderings The migrant conundrum

Title 42 ended on May 11, 2023. Dire consequences were anticipated with the unrestricted influx of humans looking for a better life for their families. I know why people are paying exorbitant prices to be either dumped...

May 19, 2023 · Guy Geller

Terry’s Creek News

Call to worship was by the Praise Team and Choir as they led us in beautiful music. Then the children’s story time was by Bud Spencer. This is a highlight that the children really look forward to each Sunday morning...

May 17, 2023 · Catherine Brown

Felder’s Gardening Tools

Poor aching back and arm muscles. And sunburnt nose. Putting the finishing touches on cleaning up the garden after a disastrous winter and readying it for a for summer was rough on this old gardener’s body. But I got...

April 23, 2023 · Felder Rushing

Terry’s Creek News

It was so very good to have our Minister of Music Dennis Lea back with us last Sunday after being out with Covid, then he had the flu. Thank God healed his body and he was back leading our music program last Sunday, We...

April 22, 2023 · Catherine Brown

Armchair Ponderings Middle of the night ponderings

Pondering #1 As I write this on Wednesday my uppermost wondering is due to my Cardiologists appointment tomorrow. Will we have scheduled a surgery date for my heart? Pondering #2 Should I rethink my belief in the Second...

April 21, 2023 · Guy Geller

Felder’s Cherry Red Garden Paint

If this winter has shown me anything, it is that nearly everyone thinks their garden problems are worse than mine. Wailing about their losses, they don’t understand that I feel their pain through my own grief. But...

March 5, 2023 · Felder Rushing

Armchair Ponderings Road trash is everyone’s problem

This past Saturday’s Enterprise Journal opinion page, which I read on a daily basis, featured a column by Patsy R. Brumfield concerning a tremendous litter problem in McComb. I completely agree with portions of that...

March 4, 2023 · Guy Geller

Felder’s Snowdrops

Just saw my first snowdrops of the season, which alerts Southern horticulturists that I am nowhere near my Mississippi garden, where real snowdrops grow poorly if at all. True snowdrops, named Galanthus, are winter...

January 28, 2023 · Felder Rushing