Lots of people (non-Kentuckians) have asked me over the years:  what's the deal with bluegrass?  Is the grass really blue down there?  My answer has always been no, it's just a name, a type of grass that grows here in Kentucky.  There's no blue tinge, no hint of color other than the regular green.  It's just grass. 



Lots of people (non-Kentuckians) have asked me why I moved back to my home state.  I've given lots of different answers over the years:  needed more space, wanted to be near family, wanted to see what farm life was all about.  But as I'm sitting here at my computer, looking out the second story window of the house my mother was born and raised in, looking out over the fields my grandfather used to till and plant year after year, I think maybe I have the answer I was looking for all along:  the grass isn't blue here in Kentucky, but maybe, just maybe, it's a little bit greener.




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