Cove HNES
Cove School HNES
This morning after breakfast at Big Mama's, Robert and I visited the school building to enjoy today's stage of the reclamation and rebuilding from Hurricane Michael.
We went in every schoolroom and recalled its use during our tenure there in the 1940s.
In our second grade classroom, Robert pointed out where he went to the blackboard and wrote out his first cursive, "Panama City" with white chalk.
The new windows are being installed. This picture was in our eighth grade classroom with our all time favorite Miss Virginia Parker, lately the HNES classroom of Amy Moody, where Math is Fun and Good, was and will be again. The figure of Coach Spurrier is out for the duration, waiting to return to class with school year 2019-20.
We walked out to the magnolia tree at the basketball courts and remembered ...
the tree looks surprisingly good compared to other old trees on campus
and throughout The Cove.
Then a stroll down the back side of the building, including a stop at the
where Robert, perennially slightly late to school, rushed up, swung under the bar, through the door into the boys restroom, paused at the washbasin to wet and pat down his hair, then dashed out the other door, across the hall, into the classroom and to his desk before the teacher noticed he was late, another victory.
The school is coming along beautifully. One thing I've noticed right from the first and through the springtime, is nature's survival instinct in the trees' pattern of leaf growth. The smaller branches where leaves used to grow are gone, blown away by the force of our Category 5 hurricane. But the trees are determined, and leaves are necessary to gather the sunlight, for photosynthesis and gas exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen that are vital and sustaining for both plant and human life.
Thus, almost every tree in sight has sprouted little bunches of leaves in every possible spot, creating an interesting sight that may be with us for some seasons to come.
Hail to life and
Hail to thee, our alma mater
Hail to Cove, all hail!
We went in every schoolroom and recalled its use during our tenure there in the 1940s.
In our second grade classroom, Robert pointed out where he went to the blackboard and wrote out his first cursive, "Panama City" with white chalk.
The new windows are being installed. This picture was in our eighth grade classroom with our all time favorite Miss Virginia Parker, lately the HNES classroom of Amy Moody, where Math is Fun and Good, was and will be again. The figure of Coach Spurrier is out for the duration, waiting to return to class with school year 2019-20.
We walked out to the magnolia tree at the basketball courts and remembered ...
the tree looks surprisingly good compared to other old trees on campus
and throughout The Cove.
Then a stroll down the back side of the building, including a stop at the
Robert Everett Padgett Private Entry
The school is coming along beautifully. One thing I've noticed right from the first and through the springtime, is nature's survival instinct in the trees' pattern of leaf growth. The smaller branches where leaves used to grow are gone, blown away by the force of our Category 5 hurricane. But the trees are determined, and leaves are necessary to gather the sunlight, for photosynthesis and gas exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen that are vital and sustaining for both plant and human life.
Thus, almost every tree in sight has sprouted little bunches of leaves in every possible spot, creating an interesting sight that may be with us for some seasons to come.
Hail to life and
Hail to thee, our alma mater
Hail to Cove, all hail!