Reminiscing

Author's Note: Dedicated to my mother's sister, Aunt Ophine Buford - commemorating her 100th Birthday…8 August 2014. Remembering Mounds Another place and time My view from the ridge …Etched..in my mind Rising in the distance Mississippi River Bridge …..Crossing at Cairo My view from the ridge Far removed from Mounds ..Another place and time Napa Valley's..Carneros.. Whose scenery reminds ….Of off in the yonder San Francisco Bay Bridge Reminiscent of my childhood's ….View from the ridge I think of my Mother… Her siblings especially you ...Grandma and Grandpa And Uncle Buddy..I view In your one hundred years …Afforded relatively few How precious…Aunt Ophine …Happy Birthday…To You