Alabama in May

I visited a special town today.

I just sat in these flowers and stared up at the old courthouse.

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Back When...

I tried to imagine Monroeville, Alabama in 1903 when the courthouse was brand new...and in the 1930's  when a lawyer named A.C. Lee walked through these doors.

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Then I went inside...

I looked up at the tin ceiling stamped with dogwood blossom designs and I stared down at the shiny, pine floors...and then I climbed the stairs.

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Looking Down

I stared down over the railing, just like the characters Scout, Jem and Dill did in the book To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Better than Flowers!

Then I found a better place to pose than flowers.

I will always remember my trip to this small southern town where Harper Lee grew up.  So much of To Kill a Mockingbird was based on her childhood memories here.  I wonder if she ever found small treasures in the hole of a tree, like Jem and Scout did? 

I should have found a tree hole to pose in before I left!

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