Dorie’s Different Reality

Can Spring be far off?

If I ruled the world, ev’ry man would be as free as a bird,
Ev’ry voice would be a voice to be heard
Take my word we would treasure each day that occurred

My world would be a beautiful place
Where we would weave such wonderful dreams
My world would wear a smile on its face
Like the man in the moon has when the moon beams
If I Ruled The World, recorded by Tony Bennett, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, who has written many fine songs!
Not that it’s warm or anything. It’s still in the 30’s today. So that Robin must be a visitor from the North! A happy sight anyhow.

Yesterday, we got dressed up fine and went to a wedding. Mike knew the groom; I’d never met either of them, which was an odd feeling. I wish them well of course, but odd watching strangers get married.
We live on a “ridge”, geologically speaking. It runs up and down Maryland like a spine. When you go just a few miles West of here, you descend into a big green valley lying between here and the Blue Ridge. Long ago part of the ocean- fabulous farmland! That’s where the wedding was- at a little country church down in the valley. As we started driving West, we started seeing the most godawful clouds coming in. In my Discovery Channel voice I said, “Michael, those are cumulonimbus clouds- that can’t be a good thing” I might as well have said “Head for the Barn Dorothy!” because while we were driving along, the biggest, darkest, scariest storm blew in. We had the CD player in the car going (Perry Como -romance for the wedding) I said something about tornadoes, and I kept looking west just to make sure there wasn’t a funnel cloud headed our way. By the time we got to the church, it was blowing pretty good, starting to rain and wouldn’t ya know not a single parking place close to the church? Mike dropped me off, but by the time I got inside, my long Rita Hayworth hairdo had turned more into Ava Gardner- went straight on me! Those Germans know how to build, I tell ya! I didn’t hear any thunder and the ceremony went off without a hitch. I looked up the little church- the congregation was founded by German immigrants in 1732. I’m impressed!

The ceremony was simple dignified and crowded! Followed by a reception at a occasion sort of place several miles away. Dinner was filet mignon baked in puff pastry topped with crab imperial (very Maryland!) The reception was in a glass pavillion so I could watch all the windy raw weather following the storm. I guess we got the wind that was pushing the blizzard across Ohio.

But not one flake of snow. Yay.

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