FALL FLOWERS

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We walked yesterday at the CI and went to our favorite house and garden, just behind the auditorium.  It had an amazing array of colors, but one kind stood out, coming in yellows, whites, and crimson, as you can see above.  They grow almost five feet high and just fill the garden with amazing colors.  If anyone knows what they are, let us know as we would love to plant some.  Are they some kind of mum?  Perhaps?

Yesterday, we saw the movie THE HELP.  Evie had read the book but I knew little about it, so it was an enjoyable afternoon, with a bout 15 other retirees.  Although it was filled with cliches, all the blacks were kind and thoughtful, the whites racist and appearance conscious, excepting Skeeter (Emma Stone who was wonderful), I enjoyed the movie, especially the acting of the two maids, Abilene and Minny, both so real that I forgot I was in a movie theater.  It was a movie about character, mostly flat, but for Skeeter and the maids, so it was worth watching.  I particularly enjoyed Jolie, the white trash wife, who brought some humor and energy to an otherwise serious movie about racism in Jackson, MS, in the 1960's.  And I wonder if there really was an attempt by the legislature to pass a Sanitary Bill requiring all houses with black maids to have a black only toilet.  Amazing.

After the movie, we went to the Seezurh House for dinner, Evie getting grilled prime rib, and I had the good old beer batter fried fish fry.