Good Will Bunting. Rutledge, Georgia.
Memorial Day 2015.
I’ve got my bunting on. Have you?
This is a photo from my porch.
Yesterday, I was riding my bike through nearby Rutledge and took note of all the bunting displayed.
This would make the perfect blog post. Timely, local and easy.
If you want to know the unvarnished truth coating the mind of a busy person who blogs. That’s it.
So I rode down there today to capture patriotism for you this Memorial Day weekend. After perusing the vegetable transplants at the hardware store, I headed onward deep into the heart of downtown Rutledge.
The stop can.
Yes, fiddling with my filters, hopping in and out of my car.
I witnessed a quiet town’s patriotism.
Birds chirping and cars passing by on the way to other places. Other spaces.
I’m afraid that my first thought on Memorial Day is yay the motorcycles will pass the house and it will be summer!
But with the passage of time, the more I reflect on the young soldiers who never had another hot dog or waved a flag as floats ferried past on a parade route.
Those who never again watched the joy of a child playing in a sprinkler’s spray.
Never got another chance for ice cream at The Caboose.
Never again played hide-and-peek with a ballon.
Or had a chance to draft an easy peasy Memorial Day blog post.
Nothing else to say but thank you.
Thank you so very much.
