After 38 years the Bohemian Cottage on the highway to town is closing for good. They served European fare - German, etc. It has always been a mystery how they stayed in business because we never saw any customer cars there, not even on the days they put out special signs, such as Father's Day.

It's not that we'll miss the restaurant, but I'll be sorry to see that familiar, colorful building get painted over.

However, I'll always have a little bit of it right here at home. Back in the 1980s when my folks were remodeling this house, my mother hired someone from there to paint the design on the window planters at our house.





The hummingbirds think the painted red flowers might be real ones, and every day we see them checking to make sure there wasn't a change overnight.