Although, I did not remember this song by DC5, they do have tons of good music I do remember. Did you know they sold more than 100M records, including 24 hit albums and 30 world-wide singles? That’s pretty impressive and the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inducted DC5 in 2008.
In keeping with life through music, that’s just wanted I’m doing. Earlier in the month, I shared Daddy’s Little Girls sitting in a mulberry tree. It’s a fabulous climbing tree. The girls loved doing this (with a little help) when they were small and DS did, too. If that ole tree could talk, I’m sure it would say to our kids, “Your papa climbed every branch of me straight to the top!”.
Everyone loved picking (more like eating ’em) mulberries so Mamaw could make a fresh, home-baked Mulberry Cobbler. NumNum!
Mulberry Cobbler
Ingredients:
- 4 c. ripe mulberries
- 1 C. white sugar
- 1 C. sifted flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 C. stick butter, melted
- 3/4 C. milk
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients, except mulberries, by hand. Heat mulberries on the stove (sweeten to taste) and be careful to not scorch fruit. Pour half of the batter into a greased square baking dish (8″x8″ or 9″x9″). Add fruit, then pour the remaining batter over the fruit. Bake in a preheated, 400º oven for 40 minutes or until brown.
You can serve vanilla ice cream on the side for an added treat, but with or without the ice cream it’s a delicious!
DH spent many boyhood years beneath that old tree staring across the blue ridges of the Appalachian mountains daydreaming about all the what ifs and pondering the mysterious of the universe.
In our dating years, we took many walks along his parents’ property and our journey always took us to this ole tree. I always imagined its sturdy limbs as the perfect cradle for a tree house fortress, but none was never built upon its weight. Instead, birds and squirrels called it home.
This tree is a favorite of ours and many picnics enjoyed beneath the shade of her foliage. In fact, I made sure that my illustrator depicted the mulberry tree in my children’s book, The Tale of Ole Green Eyes.
Local artist Leann Vineyard Copper used this photo for inspiration…
Underneath the mulberry tree’s cover now is where my sweet Mother-in-law is laid to rest. This is what she wanted. The place of fond memories and the beauty of God’s world surrounding her. Although, she is unaware I like to think the change of the seasons dancing to where she lays covering the earth with autumn’s warmth, or the blanket of winter white, or the sunny buttercups carpeting the ground makes her smile from above. That ole mulberry tree is a little haven, a piece of heaven on earth.
Do you have a favorite tree to sit beneath? Have you ever had mulberry cobbler?
Why not join me while I visit some merry bloggers taking part in this marvelous A2Z Challenge!