For those that have been following the blog for a while, you may know the Mississippi River holds a special place in my heart.
I spent 6 months—along with some great friends—figuring out how to build a boat from recycled materials and travel it’s 3,000+ kilometre length.
Natchez was one of the towns where we got the warmest welcome. A local family gave us a room for a couple nights, hosted us for multiple meals, and the father—Greg, a manager at a local golf course—took us for a hit at his course.
A video of came up in my feed today of Greg sowing poppy seeds at the bank of the Mississippi River in Natchez. I then learned that every year in October he plants tens of thousands of poppies, weeds them all winter, and then lets the community enjoy them come April. Greg’s actions have been dubbed a sort of “random acts of floral largesse”.
Greg is such a bright character who is full of life, and I loved seeing him at it again: making people smile.
