Mississippi Fun And Broken Spray Cancel

When you think of the state of Mississippi, what do you think of?

Great stretches of forest . . .
Cotton fields . . .
Riverboats . . .
Beautiful beaches . . .

or . . .




This: Black bears.



To be fair there are black bears in Mississippi. About 60 of them. One subspecies is endangered and the other federally protected.


Do note that this spray cancel is missing a section out of the middle. Makes you wonder how the spray cancels are applied, exactly. One spray nozzle got plugged up maybe.

This comes from a collection of Flags of Our Nation. It was a complete set on cover. Then someone else got a hold of it and hacked the stamp and postmark off the cover. At least they kept the postmark. Still, it was nice to get a complete used set, on piece for only a few dollars.

I think of
.....grits and fried okra.
.....iced tea.
.....shrimp boats.
.....spanish moss dripping from live oaks.
.....people saying "ya'll" and "yes, Ma'am."
.....guys holding doors open for you.
.....waitresses calling you "honey."
.....all soft drinks being called "Coke."
.....endless pine trees.
.....little girls in smocked dresses and big bows in their hair.
.....hush puppies and mint juleps.
.....kudzu.
.....magnolias, gardenias, azaleas, and camellias.


But most of all, I think of HOME.

And no, I do not think of black bears. Not at all. Never.

Perhaps they were plentiful in the past.

You forgot casinos, beaches, hwy 90 along the beach....