We lived in Georgia when I was eight years old. Had a cool creek that ran through the backyard that my friends and I spent lots of time in, catching crawdads and throwing lily pads at each other. The first week of May I got horribly sick with what the docs guessed was an allergy. I couldn't breathe, even though I've never had asthma. My face turned very red and swelled to the point that I couldn't see. My hands swelled so much that they actually cracked and clear liquid ran from the cracks. It lasted for several days and then disappeared as suddenly as it came on. The following year it was back -- again in the first part of May. It was worse the second time and I ended up in the hospital, on oxygen and being pumped full of antihistamines. After asking tons of questions about anything new in my environment, the doctor finally told my mother that he believed I was deathly allergic to something that only bloomed during that time of year. His suggestion, besides documenting everything that I'd recently come into contact with, was to be GONE from the area well before the following May. Needless to say, we moved up North, and there were no more episodes until I went to an Easter Sunday service where the church was filled with blooming LILIES. The uncontrollable coughing started before we were even seated. Within five minutes I was having trouble breathing and freaking out. Mystery solved. I got out of there like my pants were on fire and my butt was catching! Nowadays I don't go to Easter services, or weddings, or funerals. I steer clear of the floral department in garden centers and grocery stores. No more lilies for me. For the record, I don't think I'm allergic to ALL types of lilies, but I have no plans to test that theory.

Russell is on our short list for cabinet makers ( Crown Point is also on the list) for our kitchen renovation. Has anyone used him? If so, anything you could share about working with him and the quality of his cabinets would be appreciated. Thank you, D&C

Miami, Idaho?? with a Florida zip code? Right there ought to tell you it's a fake company with some overseas person using a fake business account. they can't even get the state abbreviations correct. if you send money to this site, you'll never see it, or the product. They probably used the stock photo of a legit business (for the light) and put it on their site. Those chinese internet sellers do it all the time w/clothing. you see the ads on IG and other places. The exact same picture is taken off the real website, and they tell you 'order from us and you get the same product for 1/8th the price". yeah, fake. scam. people fall for it, they never get the item (or the item they do get is so different from the original, that they can't even return it or get a refund). RH doesn't sell their products anywhere but RH. So if you see one of their products being sold w/another vendor, it's fake. period. It's a waste of money.

Here’s what I found when I did a search. Looks like it St. Cecilia rose, renamed by the florist industry as Peony Pink Rose.