Patricia Neely-Dorsey

Patricia Neely-Dorsey, a Lee County poet and this week’s Neighbors cover story subject, reads from her first book of poetry, “Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia.”

Snow Fun in Guntown

Some of my neighbors in the Country Oaks subdivision in Guntown turned the back side of a pond dam into their own ski slope Saturday morning after the rare March snowfall. One invited me to take a slide down the slope, but I refused. With my luck, if I got on the skis or the sled I would take a nasty fall and hurt myself. By lunchtime, the snow was all but gone. It was fun while it lasted.

As I stated in my column in today’s Neighbors, if you have a snowy photo from the weekend and want to share it with the rest of Lee County, submit it to Neighbors. You can e-mail it to me (.jpg format only) or prints can be dropped off at the Journal office at 1242 South Green in Tupelo. They can be mailed to Lee County Neighbors, P.O. Box 909, Tupelo, MS 38802.

Tupelo Spring Classic

These are some of my shots from the Tupelo Spring Classic soccer tournament, which was played over the weekend at Sportsplex. I have a few more, but the host site I load the photos to (Slide.com) had a few technical problems during my upload. I’ll try to post the rest of them later today.

 I was unable to shoot photos of two age groups at the tourney: the Under-16 Boys and Under-10 Girls. The U-16 boys wrapped up play Saturday, and I didn’t make it to the tournament until Sunday. There were several U-10 Girls games Sunday, but I got caught up shooting other games. I was hoping a Tupelo or Saltillo team would make the U-10 finals and I could shoot that game. However, it turned out two Memphis teams advanced to the final. To make up for not shooting the U-10s, I’ll focus on them the next time I’m at Sportsplex and the Saltillo fields.

In addition to my many photos, I came away from the tournament with a very red face from standing in the sun and wind for nine hours. Applying sunscreen was the last thing on my mind Sunday morning. I didn’t even think about it. I was more concerned about getting to the fields and catching up with what happened Saturday.