A Southern Life: my take on traditions, food, sights and more.
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Southern Salads
It is salad time around here. Love something that tastes great, is fresh, healthy and you don’t have to turn on the oven! Now is the time to enj0y all those garden veggies and some great lettuce. But, of course, and good salad has to have the perfect dressing, right? I love to make vinaigrette. …
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Southern Gourmet
Hooray, in our little town, we now have a gourmet market. It is small, but it is wonderful! They are attached to our newest fine wine and spirits store. I love the name of the store. It is “The Peeps Little Bit Gourmet” – how great is that. This store is the dream of four…
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Southern Hotness!
Yikes! As I write this it is 98 with a heat index of 105! That is actually not as hot as it was supposed to be today. Of course, the day is not over. When it is this hot, turning on the oven is just not something I want to do. Actually, cooking with any…
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Southern Figs
Figs are in season right now and oh, how I love them. I used to have a fig tree. It was a brown turkey fig tree. It would bear a few figs in the late spring and then really start to flourish in the late summer, early fall. I tried moving it around with me…
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Southern Summer Birds
While summer is in full swing we have fewer birds at the feeder. There are abundant insects and berries for the birds to feast on. Now is a good time to make some plans for fall feeding and maybe just add a little extra for the few birds that do regularly visit the feeder in…
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Southern Sunday
It is time for another I wrote the following post when it was really hot. Guess what? It still is! Oh well, that is what summer is all about 🙂 From July 14, 2010: Southern Sunny Table It is hot, hot hot here! As I write this, the heat index is 101 – down from…
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Southern Summer
Wow, it has been crazy busy around here this past couple of weeks. I thought I would try to get by with combining posts and not actually posting every day. Oops, apparently not a good idea. In addition to my mother and my sister letting me know that they had noticed and missed a new…
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Southern Blue Rhapsody
Thank you so much Mama for this lovely tablescape that you put together this week. It has been a crazy week around here for me and you know I love to feature my wonderful mother and her wonderful talents. She set a table with Mikasa Studio Nova’s Blue Rhapsody for today. I love the blue…
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Southern Skies
Well, we have been looking for some rain around here. The clouds come along, but they haven’t gotten together to give us any rain lately to break this heat! I go outside and here is what I see: I know it will cool down eventually! In the meantime, I enjoy the…
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Southern Summer
Late July and Early August are really hot around here and also very humid. It has been said that the humidity is what gives Southern girls their wonderful complexions! It may also be responsible for some really bad hair days. I don’t even try to fight the curls in the summer. Just not worth it.…
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Southern Pinks
It is still really hot here, but I still try to brave the back porch whenever possible. Today, while I was out, a small rain shower moved in and cooled things just a tad. The sun was still out while the rain fell. Norvelle Turner, who helped raise my husband used to say, “the devil…
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Southern Gulf Coast
If you have been reading A Southern Life for any time, you know how much I love the Gulf of Mexico. From South Padre Island to the Florida Keys it is beautiful and has some of the best seafood in the world. The wetlands that are closer in host oysters and crawfish and pelicans and…
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Southern Retro
First a note to some of you with blogspot blogs. I went to visit several of my friends with blogspot blogs today and they would not allow me to leave a comment. I’ll try again later. Hopefully, it was just a temporary thing. Anyway, I was thinking back to my younger days today and remembering…
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Southern Sweetness
I was sitting out on the porch this morning watching the birds at the feeder. You actually have to sit out early in the morning or late in the evening this time of year because it is hot, hot, hot and steamy, sultry, humid during the day. There were several robins out in the yard…
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Southern Flamingos
This past week, one of my Facebook friends posted some really cute pictures of some kitschy flamingos that were used to decorate a table for a pink benefit golf tournament. I emailed her and asked for permission to use her pictures but haven’t heard back yet. I’ll definitely post them later on this post if…