Planting Time in Bay City

Spring is springing up all over the place around here. Daffodils have been up for a couple of weeks, tulip poplars and the forsythia are blooming. We're starting to see crappie fishermen in the creeks. And the Bay City General Store is blowing the dust off and getting ready for its spring opening. The first thing you see when you walk in our old 1915 store is this seed cabinet. It can be a painful experience for parents with young kids - they are eye level with all sorts of colorful vintage candies. Each drawer is filled with all the candies and novelties from your childhood - Sugar Babies, Milk Duds, Candy Buttons, wax bottles filled with sugar water, candy necklaces, Pixy Stix, candy cigarettes (yes they still make them - can you believe it?) BB Bats, Bazooka bubblegum, Tootsie Pops, taffy and circus peanuts. Does it get any better than that? While the munchkins are drooling over the candy selection hopefully parents will be drooling over the new spring merchandise - nature inspired plates and serving dishes just perfect for that next tea party or gathering on your patio or porch, nests and eggs of all sizes, baskets blooming with forsythia, bluebirds sitting on glass cloches............well you just need to come see for yourself. Oh did I mention red wax lips????????????????????? That makes it worth the scenic drive right there. Hope to see you soon!