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Last year I spent some time rejuvenating, if you will, our “Miss Kim” lilac. It had gone years without any maintenance pruning, just never making the priority list for chores out at the farm. Although “Miss Kim” is considered a dwarf variety and needs less maintenance, it was in need of some serious reduction.

Now two months after a devastating fire took three buildings from the 600 block of Main Street in downtown Shelbyville, an idea is shaping up of what is to come and while looks like change, it also looks like history may repeat itself.

In 1985, a fire ripped through 6th Street on the west side, between Main and Washington, and where it destroyed buildings there, vacant lots still remain.

Jimmy Reynolds, who owned two of the buildings destroyed in March, doesn’t sound nearly as optimistic as he once had been about the future of his property.

The road back has been an arduous one for Taylor Webb.

Late last summer Webb, a senior at Shelby County High School, had surgery to repair a torn labrum in her hip. That forced Webb, who finished fifth as a sophomore and 12th as a junior at the Class AA state cross-country meet, to miss her senior season.

This spring, though, Webb has worked her way back onto the track for the Rockets. She will be there again today in the Class AA, Region 3 track & field meet at North Oldham.

The cool spring has finally ushered in May flowers! I love cut flowers from the garden. There is a simple, happy satisfaction that comes from picking a bundle of peonies for the kitchen work table. Just be sure to shake the ants off first. The other thing about a cool spring with adequate rain fall is that the weather is acting as a sort of preservative: all those beautiful blooms are lasting much longer than normal.