Collecting Marble colored rocks, rain boots with mismatched socks. Toy plastic kitchens and mud pies, no stress, no worries she never crys. Tea sets with old dollies in her treehouse, with her pillow and blanket, snug as a winter mouse. Chasing grasshoppers in tall sweet grass, drinking her milk from a mason jar glass. Catching bull frogs on Bancrofts Baptist Lake's shores, stuffing salamanders in her overalls, girlhood is never a bore. Skinned dirty knees, from climbing to the very top of Maplewood trees. A pink frilly dress, with itchy pantyhose, always with grandmother off to Sunday School she goes. Life is blissful as a young country lass, exploring and growing into a young lady with class.