Let me tell you about the birds and the bees

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BRANSON MO NEWS: Alice ChamleyNext line? And the sycamore trees? Also, about the lady bugs, not so much about bees.The sycamore trees are a large spreading tree of eastern and central North America that has light brown flaky bark and small round fruits hanging on long stalks. I wonder if those fruits are the spiky ones that are sold in the grocery store that are supposed to keep spiders away.If so, I would fill our basement with them. Not that I have seen many, but I know for a fact they are always in hiding, waiting for me.When Dave and I took a tour bus to Branson, Missouri, a few years ago for the Christmas performances, the bus driver got lost, and we ended up on some forlorn country road that actually had these sort of trees all along the way! I was sure that eventually we would be in Kansas finding Aunt Em.So, anyway – off the subject – I wanted to tell you about the lady bugs that are again coming in our house. They are slow moving, trying to find a warm spot and most likely in the woodwork corners. They are easy visitors. One doesn’t see them again until spring when they come out, but then have forgotten their way.Just like the crazy squirrels desperately digging in any dirt or leaves that they can find in order to hide their walnuts fallen from our trees. They also forget in the spring where they put them. I am the one who finds them in all my planters that held the pretty flowers all summer.One freeze, and all the geraniums in the window boxes were frozen and hanging over the side and presented a most pitiful sight. I hurried and pulled them all out and then replaced …