| Show NOW IS YESTERDAY LaRaine Redd Monticello Utah Non-Professional Second TOMORROW Place Division Anecdote Grandma didnlive there anymore The small yellow adobe house stood lonely and tall weeds adorned the landscape that once boasted peonies roses pansies and tulips Poplar trees lining the street-side of the yard had aged and new shoots were spearing high about their roots walked gingerly across the splintered foot bridge through the sag ging front gate and up the boardwalk to the house Void of loved furnish ings the walls echoed my footsteps asentered the parlor me with its faded rose-colored Tinoleum but the studio straight-backed oak chairs the upright piano were gone of the room hermit-1ike never saw used and still unfriendly stood It qazed at couch the In the far corner the old coal heater hastened through the once cozy dining room where we ate suppers of homemade bread and milk and sharp cheddar cheese and stepped into the long narrow kitchen My head almost reached the sloping ceiling wall which as1ittle girl standing on tiptoehad tried my fingers on to the outside touch with The smells of fresh-baked sugar cookies and of boiling water for dishes had been replaced by dust and Toneliness hurried out the back door which somehow still whined the same but its spring was broken and didnpull it back into place Tooked at the door What had happened to all my yesterdays Thenremenbered Now is yesterdaytomorrow and gently closed the door Hith hastereturned to my car Source This is the Fountain memoir Green of my Grandma Mary Mikkelsen whose home is in Utah FEATHER DUSTER Marjorie Riley Salt Lake City Utah Non-Professional Division Honorable Mention Anecdote More than her birthday anything my sister We had no money and wanted to give Mama present for for buyinggift even if we could get to The Progress or The Golden Rule Store and we were too young to know how to |
